If the release of Perl 1.0 according to perlhist is taken as the date of birth, today Perl is 10,000 days old.

From the epic story, Through the Perl Glass and what chacham found there:

chacham looked doubtful. `I'd rather see that done on the Internet,' he said.

johnbio couldn't help smiling as he took to google, and searched the difference for him:

May 05, 2015 at 04:00 UTC
1987-Dec-18
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10,000 days

chacham looked at it up carefully. `That seems to be done right -- ' he began.

`You're holding it upside down!' johnbio interrupted.

`To be sure I was!' chacham said gaily, as he turned it round for him. `I thought it looked a little queer. As I was saying, that seems to be done right -- though I haven't time to look it over thoroughly just now -- and that shows that there are ten thousand days since Perl 1.000 -- '

`Certainly,' said johnbio.

In reply to Re: 10,000 days of Perl by chacham
in thread 10,000 days of Perl by johnbio

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