<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Eric S. Raymond poses the question..<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote>
<div><br>ESR gets dates on Larry Wall slightly wrong. Larry was doing patch and RN (usenet news) in the "early 1980's" but Perl 1.0 was released (late in) 1987.<br></div></div><br>[ I have attempted to forward ESR's Slug Russel query to Shag Graetz, the other principal of Hingham Institute (Spacewar). ]<br>
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Bill<br>@n1vux <a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</a><br>