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- From: faigin@aero.org (Daniel P. Faigin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: Re: Perl IV & V incompatibilities?
- Date: 18 Dec 92 09:39:00
- Organization: The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA
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- In-reply-to: merlyn@ora.com's message of 18 Dec 92 17:11:33 GMT
-
- On 18 Dec 92 17:11:33 GMT, merlyn@ora.com (Randal L. Schwartz) said:
- > 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.
-
- Additionally, I was the first person to be caught by a perl transition. You
- see, I had written a whole batch of scripts in the first version of perl that
- Larry made available on blackvax. These scripts went through a data dictionary
- document and extracted out the data type definitions, topologocially sorted
- them, and then produced a Pascal include file. Perl 0 used regular expressions
- using the regular expression scanner that was in rn -- Larry believes in
- software reuse -- which was originally based on some Emacs scanner. This was
- the one in which you escaped the () to indicate grouping, i.e.,
- \(\d\d\d\)
-
- etc.
-
- Well, when Larry went to Perl 1, he put in the RE scanner we all know today --
- without escaping. One day, Larry thought it would update the perl on blackvax
- to the new version, which was now on sdcrdcf. He did. All my scripts broke.
-
- To this day, I'm still not sure I found all the old scripts :-)
-
- Daniel
- Perl's Paternal Godparent, or something like that (Mark's the Maternal one)
-
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