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