in reply to Bring out your Old Perl Code

From Planet Perl:
Michael Schwern has baby pictures of our favorite language. Specifically, he's put up a repository of a version of Perl 1 that actually builds on modern compilers.
Just in case you want to test any of the code you find :)

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Re^2: Bring out your Old Perl Code
by pc88mxer (Vicar) on Dec 19, 2007 at 21:34 UTC
    Very interestingly, here's the contents of the Wishlist file from that release:

    date support
    case statement
    ioctl() support
    random numbers
    directory reading via <>

    It's taken a while, but I think this list is complete now.

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      I personally believe that maybe He didn't mean the glob behaviour later given to angular brackets (along with the guessing nightmare now associated to what's inside them) but that a dirhandle in them would return directory entries. Anyway, the fact that glob() was actually put in that role tends to counter my suspect. But of course someone could put an authoritative last word here...

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