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Here's Perl 1.0, published by Larry on comp.unix.sources 25 years ago ("Revision 1.0 87/12/18 13:07:40 root"). https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.

Here's Perl 1.0, published by Larry on comp.unix.sources 25 years ago ("Revision 1.0 87/12/18 13:07:40 root"). https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.unix/browse_frm/month/1988-02 https://groups.google.com/group/comp.sources.unix/browse_frm... Perl Kit, Version 1.0 Copyright (c) 1987, Larry Wall You may copy the perl kit in whole or in part as long as you don't try to make money off it, or pretend that you wrote it.

mstevens 14y ago
Slightly self-promotion, but you can get a variety of old perl sources at http://www.etla.org/retroperl/ http://www.etla.org/retroperl/ (collected by someone non-me, I can't remember who though) I had thought someone had done a perl 1 release that built on modern systems, but on a quick hunt I can't find it.
- perlgeek 14y ago
  The perl source repository quite many historic releases also, and the first few commit messages also contain the accompanying release notes. See for example https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611a2f4f5a21059a2804f1 https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611... for the perl 1.0 annoucement (click on the [...] link to get the full commit message).
  - mstevens 14y ago
    ooh, cool, I didn't know that was there. My more active interest in perl was pre-git :)