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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. Re: Aside from historical value, what's the point? by gooru · · Score: 4, Funny

    so why not give this piece of 1980s computing history a try?

    Because I can't actually do anything with it?

  2. There's one good thing about it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    At least it doesn't consider whitespace syntaxtically significant!

  3. eh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    so why not give this piece of 1980s computing history a try?

    Or yould do as the C programmers do and still be left in the 70's.

  4. wtf? by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    I submitted this story almost 20 years ago!

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

  5. The Language To End All Languages by quinkin · · Score: 4, Funny
    Ah, Perl 1.0.

    All the power of QBasic, the readability of assembly, and the flexibility of DOS batch scripting...

    (Apol. to all the offended nostalgics :)

    Q.

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    Insert Signature Here
    1. Re:The Language To End All Languages by Magic+Thread · · Score: 5, Funny

      You forgot "the speed of Java."

  6. Dupe Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It has to be, it's 20 years old.

    Oh, how about this:

    I know slashdot is behind the news, but this is ridiculous. :)

  7. Ack!!! by stevens · · Score: 4, Funny

    As someone who uses perl quite a bit, using this 1.0 gave me a line I've seen before only in my nightmares:

    $ ./perl -w -e 'print "Just Another Perl Hacker,";'
    Unrecognized switch: -w
    $

    Aaaaaggghh! Must ... have ... warnings ...