Perl 1.0? 92
James A. A. Joyce writes "The title says it all. There's a tiny blurb over at dev.perl.org.
Download Perl 1.0 here, for all of those nostalgics in the Slashdot audience! It's only 263KB, so why not give this piece of 1980s computing history a try?"
Re: Aside from historical value, what's the point? (Score:4, Funny)
Because I can't actually do anything with it?
There's one good thing about it. (Score:0, Funny)
eh (Score:4, Funny)
Or yould do as the C programmers do and still be left in the 70's.
wtf? (Score:5, Funny)
The Language To End All Languages (Score:5, Funny)
All the power of QBasic, the readability of assembly, and the flexibility of DOS batch scripting...
(Apol. to all the offended nostalgics :)
Q.
Re:The Language To End All Languages (Score:5, Funny)
Dupe Post (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, how about this:
I know slashdot is behind the news, but this is ridiculous.
Ack!!! (Score:5, Funny)
As someone who uses perl quite a bit, using this 1.0 gave me a line I've seen before only in my nightmares:
Aaaaaggghh! Must ... have ... warnings ...