Quoting Chris Benson <chr...@ccandc.org>:
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 05:29:29PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote:
1/ Technical
What CPAN modules deserve to be mentioned as part of Perl's history?
Which Perl infrastructure projects are (or were) important? Are
there any other technical things that need to be covered?
Back before there were modules: the earliest version I used (3.something)
came with *2p utilities that were useful in their own right and enabled
bootstrapping knowledge from find, sed and especially in my case awk:
http://code.activestate.com/lists/perl-advocacy/1671/
If a2p hadn't existed (and installed right alongside perl) I'm not sure
whether I'd have started using Perl.
Weren't those utilities only removed from Perl in the last couple of years?
I think the early days of comp.lang.perl (before the split) with informed,
entertaining & helpful commentary from some of stalwarts was also key
in the rise of Perl.
Yeah! I've already tracked down the first posting to comp.lang.perl.
Finding it harder to trace the history of #perl though. Can anyone
help out there? Even if it's just an idea of when it first started.
Oh, and when was irc.perl.org set up?
Dave...
