Prompted by Perl being 20 years young today and reading an old Selected Best Node Last Script. What now? by Acolyte Vintage 2002, who mentions a love hate relationship with an old Perl script.

Set me looking for some early code examples, hopefully from the very late 80's that were still working today.

ajt mentions and old script here Re(7): The Case for Learning Perl that "allows a remote user to arbitrarily view any file on the server", but gives no indication of its age.

There appear to be scripts still around and working from the mid 90’s, but I haven't been able to find anything earlier.

I'm sure other Monks know better!

There must be a gem still in existence from the early days, what's the oldest bit of Perl you love/hate still working for its living?

In reply to Bring out your Old Perl Code by Gavin

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