10,000 days of Perl

[johnbio]

Just a brief meditation on this landmark day for Perl. If the release of Perl 1.0 according to perlhist is taken as the date of birth, today Perl is 10,000 days old. As someone who has used Perl an awful lot for ... more than 7,000 days, and continues to do so, I would like to post a big Thank You and a 5-digit landmark congratulation to Perl, Larry Wall and the Community :-) I may post again in 2042.

[flexvault]

Thanks johnbio,

A couple of years ago I wrote a calendar in Perl that uses the fact that the calendar repeats every 400 years. Because of your observation, I verified that my calendar agrees that 'Perl is 10_000 days' old on 05/05/2015. I know you didn't expect it to be a test case, but thanks for both the observation and the 'test case'.

I also noted that I've been married for 17,013 days as of 05/05/2015. I hope you can post in 2042 ( I doubt I'll be around :-).

Thanks again, and 'long live Perl' ( Note: I did a JPEG of the calendar entry, but couldn't find how to post an image as part of this comment. Maybe a friendly monk would know? )

Best Regards...Ed

[chacham]

If the release of Perl 1.0 according to perlhist is taken as the date of birth, today Perl is 10,000 days old.

From the epic story, Through the Perl Glass and what chacham found there:

chacham looked doubtful. `I'd rather see that done on the Internet,' he said.

johnbio couldn't help smiling as he took to google, and searched the difference for him:

May 05, 2015 at 04:00 UTC

1987-Dec-18

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10,000 days

chacham looked at it up carefully. `That seems to be done right -- ' he began.

`You're holding it upside down!' johnbio interrupted.

`To be sure I was!' chacham said gaily, as he turned it round for him. `I thought it looked a little queer. As I was saying, that seems to be done right -- though I haven't time to look it over thoroughly just now -- and that shows that there are ten thousand days since Perl 1.000 -- '

`Certainly,' said johnbio.