Happy Birthday Perl!

[Dominus]

Perl 1.000 was released on this day in 1987. Perl is now 14 years old.

Happy birthday!

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Mark Dominus
Perl Paraphernalia

[tilly]

And now we are in that queasy period where Perl does disrespectable things like pay undue attention to a snake in the grass, and now we are forced to live with the consequences...

And to think that just a few short years ago the proud father was talking about a much more respectable boyfriend. How life changes!

[VSarkiss]

For some more details, check out the Perl Timeline. It also contains Larry Wall's first Perl poem, and a report of merlyn singing "Happy Birthday to Perl" on Larry's answering machine. Fun stuff!

And many more....

[Jazz]

Unfortunately, the links to the infamous photo of merlyn calling Larry to sing "Happy Birthday, Perl" are now dead (one leads to a porn site, and the domain registration lapsed on another).

But as previously warned, I'm a packrat :) So without further ado, the crooning wizard.

[Anonymous Monk]

Although merlyn actually made the call, a bunch of the New York Perl Mongers joined in the singing. :-)

[dha]

I could have sworn I was logged in when I wrote that... :-|