| rindolf | Caelum: the first computer I seriously worked on was an 8088 XT with 640 KB of RAM and a CGA colour monitor. |
| Leibsle | mine was an Apple 2+ |
| Randal | that's the same from perl 1 to perl 5 |
| Ikarus | Randal: true |
| Caelum | rindolf: my XT had a hercules card, 700x400 or so grayscale :) |
| rindolf | Caelum: OK. Randal: you've used Perl 1, right? |
| Caelum | rindolf: ever used geoworks? |
| Ikarus | I luckily started on Perl 5.004 |
| rindolf | Caelum: I'm not sure what that is. |
| Ikarus | With the keyword typo don't even remember which it was |
| rindolf | Ikarus: I started on perl 5.001 IIRC. Or was it 5.002 already. 1996 in any case. |
| Ikarus | 1999, but I didn't have internet So I could rarely get updates |
| action | Ikarus feels ancient |
| Ikarus | feels ancient |
| rindolf | Ikarus: how come you didn't have Internet? |
| Caelum | rindolf: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoWorks |
| Ikarus | rindolf: err, I was 14, I couldn't afford it |
| alester | (computer nostalgia)-- |
| rindolf | Caelum: ah, yes I remember Geos. Caelum: only used the demo. |
| Caelum | :) |
| alester | (uncritical nostalgia)-- |
| rindolf | Caelum: we ended up using Windows 3.0 |
| alester | (Starting a sentence with "ah,")-- |
| Ikarus | rindolf: took a while before I finally could get cable, which was still expensive, but less so then dial-up |
| rindolf | alester: hi there. Ikarus: OK. I started learning C with Borland Turbo C++ in 1992ish. And then I learned Visual Basic for Apps and then Perl. |
| xand | lol, 14 in 1999... that's REALLY OLD |
| Ikarus | xand: nah |
| rindolf | I wonder if you can script Excel using Perl. |
| Ikarus | rindolf: yes |
| Limbic_Region | Win32::OLE |
| Ikarus | rindolf: Perl active scripting component..... |
| rindolf | Limbic_Region: yes, but will Excel accepts them as first-class scripts? |