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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:eh by GnuVince · · Score: 0, Troll

    If I had points, I'd mod you "Insightful". It's true, C has not evolved much (except for libs) since the 70's. Time to move to the 21st century please.

  2. Re:Why not try it out indeed? by Istealmymusic · · Score: 0, Troll

    Never knew "crap" was an adjective. Maybe you mean Carp? (Its not an adjective either.)

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