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Perl4: oraperl, ingperl, uniperl, fooperl
Ted Lemon: “Wouldn’t it be nice if” - Sept 29th 1992
Applications portable between databases
Skills portable between databases!
A vision of the future - Talk, talk, talk- the dbperl-interest mailing list
Buzz Moschetti, Kevin Stock, Kurt Andersen, Ted Lemon
Kevin and Kurt changed jobs and left the list.
30 people on the list. I took the lead at that point.
Dbperl spec is progressing and Perl 5 appears on the horizon
Perl 5 alpha releases becoming stable. Almost 200 people on list.
Prototype pure-perl ‘testbed’ released for experimentation.
Sept 1994 (Two years and 600 messages - 2MB - later...):
First release of the DBI (with a pure-perl driver)
interface stabilizing and more fully documented