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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] re: kenji arisawa's perl question
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Date: Sun,  5 Nov 2000 12:41:51 -0500
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  > amazingly it had a README.plan9 and a plan9 directory in it.. it looks like
  > someone did a p9 port of perl back in 1996 ...

  tragically, this is true.

g% perl -v

This is perl, version 5.005_02 built for plan9_386

...
g%

I don't remember how hard it was to get this compiled,
but I did get it to compile and subsequently lost the changes.
(I've still got the binary.)  I looked at redoing the changes
in the new Perl (5.6.0?) and just didn't feel like going through
it since my need for Perl has gone away.  I think the README
you point out dates from Perl 4.  I've never been able to contact
the guy who did the Perl 4 port.

It wouldn't be that hard, I don't think.

Russ