Perl 1.0?

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?"

Comments

Re:Some things to point out.

[QuMa]

There still isn't a switch statement you know... Well, not in perl 5 anyway. There'll be one in perl 6.

(oh, 5.8 has "use Switch;", but that's cheating)

Re:There's one good thing about it.

[kruntiform]

Oh dear, it looks like you didn't close one of your HTML blocks properly ;) In Python, you can join lines with a backslash:

if 1900 < year < 2100 and 1 <= month <= 12 \
and 1 <= day <= 31 and 0 <= hour < 24 \
and 0 <= minute < 60 and 0 <= second < 60: # Looks like a valid date
return 1

and you can split any kind of bracketed expression over multiple lines:

month_names = ['Januari', 'Februari', 'Maart', # These are the
'April', 'Mei', 'Juni', # Dutch names
'Juli', 'Augustus', 'September', # for the months
'Oktober', 'November', 'December'] # of the year

I don't know that you mean by inline error exception, but you can start comments at the fist column so that they stand out:

# *** inline error exception ***
"something ..."

(Some of the formatting in the above examples is messed up a bit by some slashdot bogusness. Actually, there's an argument against Python's whitespace blocks for you -- things like slashdot can mess them up.)

Re:Some things to point out.

[chromatic]

There are certainly hashes in Perl 1. See hash.[ch], for example.

Did you file a bug report for your Makefile issue? Richard Clamp is maintaining this version.