Paul Eggert [Mon, 25 Jan 1988 19:48:31 +0000]
perl 1.0 patch 4: make depend doesn't work if . isn't in your PATH
make depend doesn't work if . isn't in your PATH.
Larry Wall [Sat, 23 Jan 1988 15:23:55 +0000]
perl 1.0 patch 3: Patch 2 was incomplete
I left one file out of patch 2. This is perhaps forgivable since
it is a file that is produced automatically by metaconfig along
with Configure.
Andrew Burt [Sat, 23 Jan 1988 14:57:57 +0000]
perl 1.0 patch 2: Various portability fixes.
Some things didn't work right on System V and Pyramids.
Dan Faigin, Doug Landauer [Thu, 21 Jan 1988 09:21:04 +0000]
perl 1.0 patch 1: Portability bugs and one possible SIGSEGV
On some systems the Configure script and C compilations get
warning messages that may scare some folks unnecessarily.
Also, use of the "redo" command if debugging is compiled in
overflows a stack on which the trace context is kept.
Larry Wall [Fri, 18 Dec 1987 00:00:00 +0000]
a "replacement" for awk and sed
[ Perl is kind of designed to make awk and sed semi-obsolete. This posting
will include the first 10 patches after the main source. The following
description is lifted from Larry's manpage. --r$ ]
Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text
files, extracting information from those text files, and printing
reports based on that information. It's also a good language for many
system management tasks. The language is intended to be practical
(easy to use, efficient, complete) rather than beautiful (tiny,
elegant, minimal). It combines (in the author's opinion, anyway) some
of the best features of C, sed, awk, and sh, so people familiar with
those languages should have little difficulty with it. (Language
historians will also note some vestiges of csh, Pascal, and even
BASIC-PLUS.) Expression syntax corresponds quite closely to C
expression syntax. If you have a problem that would ordinarily use sed
or awk or sh, but it exceeds their capabilities or must run a little
faster, and you don't want to write the silly thing in C, then perl may
be for you. There are also translators to turn your sed and awk
scripts into perl scripts.