| 1 | =head1 NAME
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| 2 |
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| 3 | perlhist - the Perl history records
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| 4 |
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| 5 | =head1 DESCRIPTION
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| 6 |
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| 7 | This document aims to record the Perl source code releases.
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| 8 |
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| 9 | =head1 INTRODUCTION
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| 10 |
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| 11 | Perl history in brief, by Larry Wall:
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| 12 |
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| 13 | Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates.
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| 14 | Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(...\|...\)/ to
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| 15 | /(...|...)/. \(Dan Faigin still hasn't forgiven me. :-\)
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| 16 | Perl 2 introduced Henry Spencer's regular expression package.
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| 17 | Perl 3 introduced the ability to handle binary data (embedded nulls).
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| 18 | Perl 4 introduced the first Camel book. Really. We mostly just
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| 19 | switched version numbers so the book could refer to 4.000.
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| 20 | Perl 5 introduced everything else, including the ability to
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| 21 | introduce everything else.
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| 22 |
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| 23 | =head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
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| 24 |
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| 25 | Larry Wall, Andy Dougherty, Tom Christiansen, Charles Bailey, Nick
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| 26 | Ing-Simmons, Chip Salzenberg, Tim Bunce, Malcolm Beattie, Gurusamy
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| 27 | Sarathy, Graham Barr, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Hugo van der Sanden,
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| 28 | Michael Schwern, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Nicholas Clark, Richard Clamp,
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| 29 | Leon Brocard.
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| 30 |
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| 31 | =head2 PUMPKIN?
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| 32 |
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| 33 | [from Porting/pumpkin.pod in the Perl source code distribution]
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| 34 |
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| 35 | Chip Salzenberg gets credit for that, with a nod to his cow orker,
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| 36 | David Croy. We had passed around various names (baton, token, hot
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| 37 | potato) but none caught on. Then, Chip asked:
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| 38 |
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| 39 | [begin quote]
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| 40 |
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| 41 | Who has the patch pumpkin?
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| 43 | To explain: David Croy once told me once that at a previous job,
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| 44 | there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups.
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| 45 | But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech
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| 46 | method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin.
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| 47 | No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin".
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| 48 |
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| 49 | [end quote]
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| 50 |
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| 51 | The name has stuck. The holder of the pumpkin is sometimes called
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| 52 | the pumpking (keeping the source afloat?) or the pumpkineer (pulling
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| 53 | the strings?).
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| 54 |
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| 55 | =head1 THE RECORDS
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| 56 |
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| 57 | Pump- Release Date Notes
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| 58 | king (by no means
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| 59 | comprehensive,
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| 60 | see Changes*
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| 61 | for details)
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| 62 | ===========================================================================
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| 63 |
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| 64 | Larry 0 Classified. Don't ask.
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| 65 |
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| 66 | Larry 1.000 1987-Dec-18
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| 67 |
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| 68 | 1.001..10 1988-Jan-30
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| 69 | 1.011..14 1988-Feb-02
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| 70 | Schwern 1.0.15 2002-Dec-18 Modernization
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| 71 | Richard 1.0.16 2003-Dec-18
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| 72 |
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| 73 | Larry 2.000 1988-Jun-05
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| 74 |
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| 75 | 2.001 1988-Jun-28
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| 76 |
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| 77 | Larry 3.000 1989-Oct-18
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| 78 |
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| 79 | 3.001 1989-Oct-26
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| 80 | 3.002..4 1989-Nov-11
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| 81 | 3.005 1989-Nov-18
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| 82 | 3.006..8 1989-Dec-22
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| 83 | 3.009..13 1990-Mar-02
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| 84 | 3.014 1990-Mar-13
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| 85 | 3.015 1990-Mar-14
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| 86 | 3.016..18 1990-Mar-28
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| 87 | 3.019..27 1990-Aug-10 User subs.
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| 88 | 3.028 1990-Aug-14
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| 89 | 3.029..36 1990-Oct-17
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| 90 | 3.037 1990-Oct-20
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| 91 | 3.040 1990-Nov-10
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| 92 | 3.041 1990-Nov-13
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| 93 | 3.042..43 1991-Jan-??
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| 94 | 3.044 1991-Jan-12
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| 95 |
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| 96 | Larry 4.000 1991-Mar-21
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| 97 |
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| 98 | 4.001..3 1991-Apr-12
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| 99 | 4.004..9 1991-Jun-07
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| 100 | 4.010 1991-Jun-10
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| 101 | 4.011..18 1991-Nov-05
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| 102 | 4.019 1991-Nov-11 Stable.
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| 103 | 4.020..33 1992-Jun-08
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| 104 | 4.034 1992-Jun-11
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| 105 | 4.035 1992-Jun-23
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| 106 | Larry 4.036 1993-Feb-05 Very stable.
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| 107 |
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