Jarkko pointed me to unix-history-repo, as I have been mentioned in the acknowledgements. Of course being in the same list as Brian W. Kernighan is reason enough to raise some pride :), but it shows that they used perl (VCS::SCCS) to help build this history.
In reply to Perl used in generating UNIX history by Tux
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