PERL Brief History

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Here is a brief list of the many dates and event that make up Perl's history:

* 1987 - Perl 1.0 by Larry Wall
* 1988 - Perl 2.0
* 1989 - Perl 3.0, GNU Protection License
* 1991 - Perl 4.0, Programming Perl book by Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz
* 1992 - MacPerl 4.0.2
* 1993 - Perl 4.036, Learning Perl book
* 1994 - Perl 5, DBI interface to databases, including Oracle
* 1995 - CPAN repository, MacPerl 5.0.0, www.perl.com
* 1996 - Programming Perl (2nd Ed.), The Perl Institute, The Perl Journal
* 1997 - First Perl Conference, in San Jose, Learning Perl (2nd Ed)
* 1998 - Perl Mongers special interest group, 2nd Perl Conference
* 1998 - Free Software Foundation Award for the Advancement of Free Software to Larry Wall
* 1998 - CPAN gets its 100th mirror site
* 1999 - ActiveState Tool Corp arrives, The Perl Institute dissolves
* 2000 - Perl 5.6, Perl now supports Unicode.

Larry Wall (creator of Perl)
Tom Christiansen (major contributor to Perl development
Randal L. Schwartz ("Schwartzian Transform" and book author)
Matthias Neeracher (author of MacPerl)
Andreas Konig (established original site of Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN))
Tim Bunce (first CPAN contributor)
Jarkko Hietaniemi (creates CPAN)
Brian D. Foy (created first Perl user group)
June Kevin Lenzo (Pittsburgh Perl Mongers member. organized low cost YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) at Carnegie Mellon University.)
Elaine Ashton (Perl Historian)
Jon Orwant (Editor of The Perl Journal)
Greg Bacon (Moderator of comp.lang.perl.moderated newsgroup)

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This is just a brief history of PERL. PERL is easy to learn and the good thing is its completely free to use.