Thanks to some posts to the perl5-porters mailing list (February 12 1996) by
Tom Christiansen ,
Andy Dougherty ,
and Hal Furuseth ;
we have a rough outline of Perl's release history:
- 1986 perl0
- 1987 perl1
- 1988 perl2
- 1989 perl3
- 1991 perl4 (well, around Christmas 90, actually, I think)
- 1992 perl4.036
- 1993 perl5 alpha/beta (Only the very earliest alpha's were in '93.)
- 1994 perl5 production (perl5alpha7 came out on March 25, 1994;
5.000 came out on October 17, 1994.)
- 1995 perl5.001
- 1996 perl5.002