25 Years of Perl

[Paul Makepeace]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Sam Kington <sam at illuminated.co.uk> wrote:

> Some mention should be made also of the attempt to rewrite the entire Unix
> support structure in Perl - things like ls, find, head etc. I don't think
> this ever went very far, and it appears to be very difficult to Google if
> it's still around, but I remember this being important at the time.


http://search.cpan.org/dist/ppt/

And some history on what happened,
http://computer-programming-forum.com/53-perl/94afef039a9112e6.htm

Paul