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- From: merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: Perl IV & V incompatibilities?
- Message-ID: <MERLYN.92Dec18091127@romulus.reed.edu>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 17:11:33 GMT
- Article-I.D.: romulus.MERLYN.92Dec18091127
- References: <1992Dec17.175420.19745@merlin.dev.cdx.mot.com>
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- In-Reply-To: faigin@aero.org's message of 17 Dec 92 21:49:10 GMT
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- In article <FAIGIN.92Dec17134910@soldan.aero.org> faigin@aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin) writes:
- I'm sure it won't be worse than the transition from Perl 0 to Perl 1 was. But
- then, Larry, Mark, and I were the only users of Perl 0, back in our blacker
- (so to speak :-)) days. Perl 1 was the first version released to the net,
- after Larry had moved over to RandD at SDC (hence, the machine name, sdcrdcf).
-
- One of these days, when my beard gets more grizzed, I'll tell you children the
- story :-)
-
- For those of you that don't know, Dan is the tale-spinner of the
- "history of Perl" in the Camel book. He should know.
-
- print "Just another Perl [book] hacker,"
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