Re: First posts of some famous golfers

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 at 19:34:56 -0700, Rick Klement wrote:
> "Keith C. Ivey" wrote:

> > For real history (and more possibility of embarrassment), you
> > have to go to Usenet postings.  I used Google to track down

> > 1992-05-23: Rick Klement, comp.lang.perl, asking about hash
> >             keys, answered by Tom Christiansen and Larry Wall
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=21.11334%40rick.com

> Cool, I win the "earliest posting" award :)

Well, I have been lurking for a while (and watching myself fall steadily
down the money charts) but I can certainly beat that:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1674%40titan.camcon.uucp

(A rather dull posting of 1988-07-19, and before I'd really used perl
very much :-)

The next one that Google has is from 1989-12-11, pre-announcing my
hacked port of Perl to MS-DOS. I bet eval.c wouldn't compile in 640k of
memory now :-)

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=580%40torch.co.uk

Another old posting of interest is the vote for the creation of
comp.lang.perl - the list of the "no" voters contains a
surprising name):

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=1989Dec7.214752.8695%40mcmi.uucp

Ian