=for RCS
#
-# $Id: perlhist.pod,v 1.29 1998/02/19 15:49:17 jhi Exp $
+# $Id: perlhist.pod,v 1.32 1998/04/04 12:20:50 jhi Exp $
#
=end RCS
Perl history in brief, by Larry Wall:
- Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates.
- Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(...\|...\)/ to
+ Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates.
+ Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(...\|...\)/ to
/(...|...)/. \(Dan Faigin still hasn't forgiven me. :-\)
Perl 2 introduced Henry Spencer's regular expression package.
Perl 3 introduced the ability to handle binary data (embedded nulls).
5.004_57 1998-Feb-03
5.004_58 1998-Feb-06
5.004_59 1998-Feb-13
+ 5.004_60 1998-Feb-20
+ 5.004_61 1998-Feb-27
+ 5.004_62 1998-Mar-06
+ 5.004_63 1998-Mar-17
+ 5.004_64 1998-Apr-03
=head2 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
5.004_53 1422 62 1295 141 438 70 394 162 1637 56
5.004_56 1501 66 1301 140 447 74 408 165 1648 57
5.004_59 1555 72 1317 142 448 74 424 171 1678 58
+ 5.004_62 1602 77 1327 144 629 92 428 173 1674 58
The "core"..."doc" mean the following files from the Perl source code
distribution. The glob notation ** means recursively, (.) means
======================================================================
- 5.003_07 5.004 5.004_04 5.004_59
+ 5.003_07 5.004 5.004_04 5.004_62
- Configure 217 1 225 1 225 1 240 1
+ Configure 217 1 225 1 225 1 240 1
cygwin32 - - 23 5 23 5 23 5
- djgpp - - - - - - 15 5
+ djgpp - - - - - - 14 5
eg 54 44 81 62 81 62 81 62
emacs 143 1 194 1 204 1 212 2
h2pl 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
- hints 90 62 129 69 132 71 139 72
- os2 117 42 121 42 127 42 134 44
+ hints 90 62 129 69 132 71 144 72
+ os2 117 42 121 42 127 42 127 44
plan9 79 15 82 15 82 15 82 15
- Porting 51 1 94 2 109 4 109 4
+ Porting 51 1 94 2 109 4 203 6
qnx - - 1 2 1 2 1 2
- utils 97 7 112 8 118 8 123 8
- vms 505 27 518 34 524 34 536 34
- win32 - - 285 33 378 36 464 39
+ utils 97 7 112 8 118 8 124 8
+ vms 505 27 518 34 524 34 538 34
+ win32 - - 285 33 378 36 470 39
x2p 280 19 281 19 281 19 281 19
=head2 SELECTED PATCH SIZES
Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>.
Thanks to the collective memory of the Perlfolk. In addition to the
-Keepers of the Pumpkin also Alan Champion, Andreas König, John
+Keepers of the Pumpkin also Alan Champion, Andreas Knig, John
Macdonald, Matthias Neeracher, Michael Peppler, Randal Schwartz, and
Paul D. Smith sent corrections and additions.
=cut
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