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@anduin.eldar.org> wrote:

> "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@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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