17 Jan
2024
17 Jan
'24
9:48 p.m.
Larry wrote it for admin help of his 4.1 BSD vaxen at NASA. (Which was
PCC based compiler K&R1 syntax). I do not remember if any one tried to
get it running on the 11 because of address space issues. As Brad says you
can check all usenet files.
Sent from a handheld expect more typos than usual
On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 9:33 AM Brad Spencer <brad(a)anduin.eldar.org> wrote:
"G. Branden Robinson"
<g.branden.robinson(a)gmail.com> writes:
[snip]
(Which isn't to say that one _can't_
write safe code using K&R C; my
fear is that having to remember all of the things the compiler won't do
for you would overwhelm the task at hand. Too bad Unix V7 didn't have
Perl, since this is basically a text transformation problem.)
Regards,
Branden
I may be very much misremembering this, but I think that Perl 3 might
exist for V7. I have very vague memories of bring up V7 in SimH and
noted that a perl binary existed there.... but it might have been 2.x
BSD...(this is actually the most likely) or something else in SimH. All
of the history says Perl 1 was created in late 1987, so V7 certainly
would have been around and I wouldn't be suprised that someone attempted
to port it. I could not find which OS Perl was an initial target for
and I didn't want to grovel though the old Usenet posts.
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