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One thing to keep in mind is that this is not actually the first version of perl, it's the first public version of perl. A version 0 did exist at the JPL previ
by simcop2387 3y ago
One thing to keep in mind is that this is not actually the first version of perl, it's the first public version of perl. A version 0 did exist at the JPL previously but it's likely lost to the ages at this point.
EDIT: For the curious about the history, take a look at the perlhist documentation, https://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist https://perldoc.perl.org/perlhist it's got a lot of good info about the history of perl and it's releases.
- rozab 3y agoThis doc has no info about perl version 0. Any source on it emerging at JPL? Can't find anything online except forum posts
- simcop2387 3y agoApparently my memory on that seems to be faulty, looks oike it was shortly after he was at jpl and left for unisys/system development corp (it changed names), https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/148 https://www.oreilly.com/pub/au/148
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- avar 3y agoPerl was born as an NSA project, this old HN thread has some good references: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069320 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14069320 As for as I know the only "official" reference to that is the "classified" and "don't ask" in perlhist.