Perl history in brief, by Larry Wall:
- Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates.
- Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(...\|...\)/ to
- /(...|...)/. \(Dan Faigin still hasn't forgiven me. :-\)
- Perl 2 introduced Henry Spencer's regular expression package.
- Perl 3 introduced the ability to handle binary data (embedded nulls).
- Perl 4 introduced the first Camel book. Really. We mostly just
- switched version numbers so the book could refer to 4.000.
- Perl 5 introduced everything else, including the ability to
- introduce everything else.
+ Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates.
+ Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(...\|...\)/ to
+ /(...|...)/. \(Dan Faigin still hasn't forgiven me. :-\)
+ Perl 2 introduced Henry Spencer's regular expression package.
+ Perl 3 introduced the ability to handle binary data (embedded nulls).
+ Perl 4 introduced the first Camel book. Really. We mostly just
+ switched version numbers so the book could refer to 4.000.
+ Perl 5 introduced everything else, including the ability to
+ introduce everything else.
=head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
Matt S Trout, David Golden, Florian Ragwitz, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa,
Chris C<BinGOs> Williams, Zefram, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Stevan
Little, Dave Rolsky, Max Maischein, Abigail, Jesse Luehrs, Tony Cook,
-Dominic Hargreaves, and Aaron Crane.
+Dominic Hargreaves, Aaron Crane and Aristotle Pagaltzis.
=head2 PUMPKIN?
BinGOs 5.17.9 2013-Feb-20
Max M 5.17.10 2013-Mar-21
- Ricardo 5.18.8-RC1 2013-May-11
+ Ricardo 5.18.0-RC1 2013-May-11 The 5.18 maintenance track
+ Ricardo 5.18.0-RC2 2013-May-12
+ Ricardo 5.18.0-RC3 2013-May-13
+ Ricardo 5.18.0-RC4 2013-May-15
+ Ricardo 5.18.0 2013-May-18
+ Ricardo 5.18.1-RC1 2013-Aug-01
+ Ricardo 5.18.1-RC2 2013-Aug-03
+ Ricardo 5.18.1-RC3 2013-Aug-08
+ Ricardo 5.18.1 2013-Aug-12
+
+ Ricardo 5.19.0 2013-May-20 The 5.19 development track
+ David G 5.19.1 2013-Jun-21
+ Aristotle 5.19.2 2013-Jul-22
+ Steve 5.19.3 2013-Aug-20
=head2 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES