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Happy Birthday Perl!
By Mark-Jason Dominus
December 18, 1999

According to the perlhist man page, Perl was first released twelve years ago today, on December 18, 1987.

Congratulations to Larry Wall on the occasion of Perl's twelfth birthday!

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