On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 at 19:34:56 -0700, Rick Klement wrote: > "Keith C. Ivey" wrote:
> > For real history (and more possibility of embarrassment), you > > have to go to Usenet postings. I used Google to track down > > 1992-05-23: Rick Klement, comp.lang.perl, asking about hash > > keys, answered by Tom Christiansen and Larry Wall > > http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=21.11334%40rick.com > Cool, I win the "earliest posting" award :) Well, I have been lurking for a while (and watching myself fall steadily down the money charts) but I can certainly beat that: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1674%40titan.camcon.uucp (A rather dull posting of 1988-07-19, and before I'd really used perl very much :-) The next one that Google has is from 1989-12-11, pre-announcing my hacked port of Perl to MS-DOS. I bet eval.c wouldn't compile in 640k of memory now :-) http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=580%40torch.co.uk Another old posting of interest is the vote for the creation of comp.lang.perl - the list of the "no" voters contains a surprising name): http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1989Dec7.214752.8695%40mcmi.uucp Ian
