perl: intro advising common support requirements

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 <h1>Perl cheat sheets</h1>
 
+<p>The most significant features introduced for each version of the Perl scripting language.
+Depending on desired compatibility you'll want to support a minimum of
+<span title="on stable/enterprise platforms such as Solaris 10, RHEL 3, SLES 8">v5.8</span> or
+<span title="on up-to-date servers such as Debian wheezy, Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 7">v5.14</span>.
+</p>
+
 <:
 my $info = do 'perl.inc.pl' or die $@ // $!;
 for my $vernum (reverse sort keys %{$info}) {