@cypnk
is there actual Perl too?
or is it PHP being called Perl because it looks similar (which was intentional by PHP originators) ?
(PHP 8 and 2012 is a mismatch; from 2012's PHP5 to modern PHP8 will be painful. Even a single big-version PHP conversion hurts some, but +3? Ouch.)
@BRicker To be fair, I think the last time the "folks in charge" actually worked with computers was when Lotus 123 was king of the office
There is to be no more Perl, which is a shame because most of their processing was so well done at the time (original dev retired in 2018)
@cypnk *sigh* so familiar.
We have several consultancies that could update and support legacy Perl5 applications. (I'm mostly retired but help one of them from time to time.)
But if they have decided to reimplement in PHP8, wow. (I gather it's less of a security disaster than 4,5 were. Stlil quite popular at low end, and as underlying platform but.)
If they have any budget for expert reverse engineering of the legacy Perl, ask. But usually there's no budget ...
r҉ustic cy͠be̸rpu̵nk🤠🤖
Bill Ricker