Background – Perl1 to Perl4
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First public release: Dec 18, 1987
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Maintained by Larry Wall
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Perl5 released Dec 19, 1994
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Currently maintained by perl5-porters
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Perl 5.6.x: Gurusamy Sarathy (ActiveState)
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Perl 5.7.x: Jarkko Hietaniemi
Perl6 Update