syn_lwnheadline: Perl: The First Twenty-Five Years

Perl: The First Twenty-Five Years
The Perl Foundation News has posted a
detailed history of the first 25 years of the Perl language.
"Before the advent of Perl 5 the resources for collecting these
scripts were few and far between, and one or two have fallen into legend
and are now taken out by wizened Perlers around a flickering light where
the Tales of Terror are shared and Matt's Script Archive comes into its
own magnificent glory. In these Enlightened days it is easy to mock those
early pioneers and to smile fondly at some of the erroneous efforts, but
they were the only resource of their time and they were formative in the
evolution."