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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
May 2010	2010-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jun 2010	2010-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2010	2010-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2010	2010-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2010	2010-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2010	2010-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 2010	2010-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 2010	2010-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jan 2011	2011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 2011	2011-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 2011	2011-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Apr 2011	2011-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 2011	2011-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jun 2011	2011-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2011	2011-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2011	2011-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2011	2011-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
Oct 2011	2011-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Nov 2011	2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 2011	2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Jan 2012	2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Feb 2012	2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 2012	2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Apr 2012	2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
May 2012	2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1	0
Jun 2012	2012-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Jul 2012	2012-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Aug 2012	2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Sep 2012	2012-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Oct 2012	2012-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Nov 2012	2012-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Dec 2012	2012-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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perlgeek·Dec 18, 2012

The perl source repository quite many historic releases also, and the first few commit messages also contain the accompanying release notes. See for example https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611... for the perl 1.0 annoucement (click on the [...] link to get the full commit message).

In Perl is 25 years old today

draegtun·Oct 17, 2012

The Perl source code use to be on Perforce before moving to Git a few years back. They probably could have done with this adaptor because it took some effort to get 21 years of Perl commit history over to Git! - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_5_development_now_on_git extra ref: Perl5 git repo: http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git | Github mirror: https://github.com/mirrors/perl

In The Git Revolution Is Here

cpeterso·May 24, 2012Submission

Perl's secret operators and constants

1 points · Open discussion

brendano·Mar 20, 2012

Python - first commit, 22 years ago https://github.com/python-git/python/commit/463d099321a4572e... (Current first page: https://github.com/python-git/python/commits/master?page=117... ) Perl - first commit, 24 years ago Amazing title: a "replacement" for awk and sed https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commit/8d063cd8450e59ea1c611... (Current first page: https://github.com/mirrors/perl/commits/ams/no-more-study?&#... ) Apparently the current Linux kernel repositories don't go back as far: http://kerneltrap.org/node/13996

In PHP source code now hosted on Github

__david__·Dec 17, 2011

Perl seems to do this (PerlIOUnix_close() in perlio.c)[1]: while (PerlLIO_close(fd) != 0) { if (errno != EINTR) { code = -1; break; } /* EINTR */ if (PL_sig_pending && S_perlio_async_run(aTHX_ f)) return -1; } [1] https://github.com/mirrors/perl/blob/be48bbe8d671b6841c3ec7c...

In POSIX close(2) is broken

peteretep·Sep 19, 2011Submission

In-depth, simple, complete explanation of how Perl's "bolted-on" OO works

2 points · Open discussion

avar·May 28, 2010

Here's one using modern Perl regex features. It's part of the perl regression tests: http://github.com/mirrors/perl/blob/blead/t/re/reg_email.t#L...

In Perfect email regex finally found