According to the introduction of "Open Sources 2.0" (which, helpfully, is online) Larry Wall has led the Perl community for "more than 20 years". According to perlhist, Perl 1.0 was released on 12th December 1987. I know which one I trust most.
Don't these people check simple facts? I know it's a small thing, but it would have been simple enough to check. And had they said "almost 20 years" I would have let it pass without comment.
Communities can exist before a product is released, perl6 being a prime example. There wasn't a Perl community before 1987, but simply checking perlhist doesn't reveal that.
Re: How Old Is Perl?
hfb on 2005-11-28T06:06:16
It's amazing how the most pedantic of pedants can be willing to be forgiving to their favourite cause. P6 doesn't have a community, it has a lot of p5 optimists. It's sort of like calling a shantytown of hoboes a community for future homeowners.
Kids today....It's a pity we can't go back to the time before 'community' became the buzzword as then we might actually have one again.Re: How Old Is Perl?
revdiablo on 2005-11-28T21:23:24
Community, n.
A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests
Re:extended community
raptor on 2005-11-25T15:29:34
i know "patch" is Larry work, but didnt know about configure,rn and warp.
What is rn and warp ?!
tiaRe:extended community
davorg on 2005-11-25T15:34:28
rn.
Wikipedia doesn't seem to know Warp, but it's a space war game.
Re:extended community
jmm on 2005-11-25T16:58:35
Warp is a space war game from the mid 80's. It was designed in the days of ASCII terminals, which could be from a huge variety of manufacturers running mutually incompatible protocols, so you controlled them using termcap / curses. So the "graphics" are quite primitive by today's standards.
Hmm, I wonder if it would still be compilable, I'll have to look around for the source code.Re:
Aristotle on 2005-11-25T21:36:00
You mean
metaconfig, notconfigure(which generally refers to the GNU autoconf, at least nowadays).
