Fw: Perl 1 Revitalized (fwd)

[Joel Meulenberg]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Todd White" <tmwhite at merit.edu>
To: "Joel Meulenberg" <joelmeulenberg at attbi.com>
Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 8:52 AM
Subject: Perl 1 Revitalized (fwd)


>
> Perl 1 Revitalized Jul 25, 2002
>
> The perl community is happy to announce the appointment of Michael Schwern
as
> the new head of maintenance for Perl 1, the original version of perl.
Michael
> comes to us with considerable experience both in testing and QA, as well
as
> managing scattered groups of programmers. His skills should stand him in
good
> stead heading the maintenance of this long-neglected version of perl.
>
> First released in 1988, this version of the software has fallen into an
> unfortunate slump with the release of versions 2, 3, 4, and 5 of perl,
> derivative languages such as Python and Ruby. "We hope to revitalize the
perl 1
> community, which has long been scoffed at by the users of more recent,
'better'
> versions of perl."
>
> This version of perl has many advantages over its far more bloated modern
> rivals. The source kit is barely 1% the size of the current language
> distributions, and the resulting executable is also much smaller, making
it
> ideal for embedded use. The small source footprint allows for easy
auditing of
> the code. It's also remarkably fast, so much so that you can often
completely
> rebuild it from scratch and run your program in the same time it takes
newer,
> more "feature-full", languages to just compile your program.
>
> News and additional information will be available on the official Perl 1
site,
> http://dev.perl.org/perl1/, including pointers to the developer mailing
list,
> perl1-porters.