{"id":279,"date":"2005-12-19T02:12:13","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T10:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?m=45"},"modified":"2005-12-19T07:26:20","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T15:26:20","slug":"happy-birthday-perl-dob-18th-dec-1987","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Perl! (D.O.B: 18th Dec, 1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the common arguments against Open Source and Linux is that much of it is all too new and unproven.   A key part of the Open Source market is the <a href=\"http:\/\/perl.com\">Perl<\/a> programming language, and yesterday Perl celebrated its 18th birthday.   At 18, Perl predates Windows (but admittedly not DOS) - even when wider adoption of Perl occurred at Perl 4 (21\/3\/1991), and Linux (1992). Even Linux is 13.   As to maturity of the products, would companies like Amazon and Bank of Canada use Perl ? (check out MasonHQ's pages on <a href=\"http:\/\/masonhq.com\/?MasonPoweredSites\">users of the HTML::Mason module<\/a> for a complete listof users of just one module.<\/p>\n\n<!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1452\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1452\" dc:title=\"Happy Birthday Perl! (D.O.B: 18th Dec, 1987)\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1452\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n-->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=HophAJ\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=HophAJ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=45\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the common arguments against Open Source and Linux is that much of it is all too new and unproven. <\/p>\n<p>A key part of the Open Source market is the <a href=\"http:\/\/perl.com\">Perl<\/a> programming language, and yesterday Perl celebrated its 18th birthday. <\/p>\n<p>At 18, Perl predates Windows (but admittedly not DOS) &#8211; even when wider adoption of Perl occurred at Perl 4 (21\/3\/1991), and Linux (1992). Even Linux is 13. <\/p>\n<p>As to maturity of the products, would companies like Amazon and Bank of Canada use Perl ? (check out MasonHQ&#8217;s pages on <a href=\"http:\/\/masonhq.com\/?MasonPoweredSites\">users of the HTML::Mason module<\/a> for a complete users of users of just one module.<\/p>\n<p><!--\n<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" xmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\" xmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1452\" dc:identifier=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/1452\" dc:title=\"Happy Birthday Perl! (D.O.B: 18th Dec, 1987)\" trackback:ping=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/trackback\/1452\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>\n--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=7Bd2fx\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=7Bd2fx\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?g=45\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}