"G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robin...@gmail.com> writes:
[snip] > (Which isn't to say that one _can't_ write safe code using K&R C; my > fear is that having to remember all of the things the compiler won't do > for you would overwhelm the task at hand. Too bad Unix V7 didn't have > Perl, since this is basically a text transformation problem.) > > Regards, > Branden I may be very much misremembering this, but I think that Perl 3 might exist for V7. I have very vague memories of bring up V7 in SimH and noted that a perl binary existed there.... but it might have been 2.x BSD...(this is actually the most likely) or something else in SimH. All of the history says Perl 1 was created in late 1987, so V7 certainly would have been around and I wouldn't be suprised that someone attempted to port it. I could not find which OS Perl was an initial target for and I didn't want to grovel though the old Usenet posts. -- Brad Spencer - b...@anduin.eldar.org - KC8VKS - http://anduin.eldar.org