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Perl 1.0?

Posted by timothy on from the ur-camel dept.

James A. A. Joyce writes "The title says it all. There's a tiny blurb over at dev.perl.org. Download Perl 1.0 here, for all of those nostalgics in the Slashdot audience! It's only 263KB, so why not give this piece of 1980s computing history a try?"

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  1. Why not try it out indeed? by torpor · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'll tell you why not: because its PERL!

    I can't imagine it was good at 1.0, considering how crap it is at its current whatever-it-is release ...

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  2. Re:Some things to point out. by cant_get_a_good_nick · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Things like this tend to become unreadable.
    And thats different from 99% of perl code out there how?