This Perl 6 announcement report mentions, among other things, ten-year-old Perl 2 code.

Some of our brethren were watching Sesame Street back then, but surely other Monks have been around Perl long enough to honestly say "Yes, I wrote code in Perl 2".

Any takers?   How about code examples?
    cheers,
    ybiC

P.S.  The Great Merlyn(TM) is almost a given for this.   <grin>

P.P.S.  No slight intended to fine young Monks who watched Sesame Street while us old farts taxes were paying for PBS.   You know who you are ar0n and mt2k.   <still grinning>

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RE: Perl is how old ?!
by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 27, 2000 at 07:51 UTC
    I don't recall writing any Perl 1 code, although I do recall downloading it off the net and at least reading the docs once or twice. I was doing everything in some weird combo of sed and awk and V7 /bin/sh at the time... perhaps with a little bit of Emacs Lisp thrown in.

    Perl 2 was my first serious Perl usage; I probably wrote a couple thousand lines of Perl code in Perl 2. And of course, I was on the alpha test development team for Perl 3, which led to the famous announcement that created the Camel book and started an industry for O'Reilly. :)

    -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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      I thought it was the series about programming the X Window System that started O'Reilly. The copyright date on Volume One is 1988, and the copyright date for the first version of the Camel is 1991.

      Unless you mean their lucrative Perl series, in which case you're quite correct.

      Rats. I'm feeling pedantic tonight. Sorry!

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Buzzcutbuddha: RE: Perl is how old ?!
by buzzcutbuddha (Chaplain) on Jul 27, 2000 at 15:59 UTC
    Yeah, back when those youngsters were learning how to run the remote control to their TV, us 'old' people were sitting in front of our CRT screen amazed at how cool Lynx was and how we could Telnet to MUD's and fight other people with swords.... :) those were the days, I'll tell you.

    Now imagine how old the original COBOL programmers feel:

    'When I was coding those paragraphs, I didn't have a CRT screen, we did everything on paper first, big flow charts that would cover your bed at night, and then we punched out the whole thing on little cards and had the terminal operator enter it for us!'
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      buzzcutbuddha forgot:
      COBOL programmers feel: "Uphill, both ways, in 4 feet of snow"

      Update: but then remembered "barefoot, and we didn't have flowchart templates..."
          LOL,
          ybiC

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"*Dirt* is older than Chip"
by chip (Curate) on Jul 28, 2000 at 15:29 UTC
    Did I write code for Perl 2? I gave Perl 1 a test drive when it first came out. Heck, you whipper-snappers probably don't even remember Xenix/286, and I ported Perl 2 to that monstrosity! (Ah, four-byte pointers and two-byte ints... those were the bad old days.)

    ("Tell that to the young people today ... and they won't believe you.")

    Oh, and I contributed the System V IPC functions. If you use Perl features named shm*, msg*, or sem*, you have me to blame ^W thank.

    I probably could dig up the Perl 2 code I wrote to set up ownerships and permissions after installing a tarball....

        -- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos

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RE: Perl is how old ?!
by ferrency (Deacon) on Jul 27, 2000 at 21:51 UTC
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      That is a great link!!!

      Roy Alan

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