On 20 November 2012 15:45, Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote: > On 11/20/2012 04:44 AM, Dave Cross wrote: > >> Quoting "Randy J. Ray" <rj...@blackperl.com>: >> >> 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? >>>> >>> >>> I'd be sure to mention the strong role Perl played in the emergence of >>> CGI applications-- both the Perl 4 cgilib.pl and Perl 5's CGI.pm. I >>> came in to Perl just a year or two before 5.000 rolled out, so I can't >>> talk to much from the pre-5 era. (My job at the time was using Perl on >>> a large scale to do software configuration management (20+ application >>> scripts, 15+ libraries, ~70,000 LOC), which I ended up transitioning >>> from Perl 4 to Perl 5.) >>> >> >> Yeah. I'd already got CGI.pm, but had forgotten about cgilib.pl. Thanks >> for the reminder. >> > > in that vein you should also mention matt's scripts. evil code but they > helped perl gain massive numbers of users. many were kiddies but some > actually learned perl.
Especially FormMail.pl... I remember that one well...