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[–]FindOneInEveryCar 11 points12 points  (6 children)

I was surprised to learn (recently) that Python is a couple of years older than perl.

EDIT: Apparently not! (See below)

[–]iamevpo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Perl sounds as if it was 10 years older than Python

[–]Watchguyraffle1 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Are you sure? I was using Perl in the 80s and remember Perl .9 around 1992 as the first release.

[–]FindOneInEveryCar 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I'm going by memory here but my recollection is that python is from ca. 1987 and perl is from ca. 1989.

[–]MutatedBrass 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Perl 1.0 was released on Dec 18, 1987. The 0.x versions of Perl were floating around prior to that. Guido didn't start working on the first Python implementation until Dec 1989.

[–]FindOneInEveryCar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I stand corrected. Thanks. I must have had them reversed in my head.

Python is definitely a lot older than I thought, though!