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From:
Henk P. Penning
Date:
October 25, 1999 14:48
Subject:
Re: Happy birthday, CPAN!
Message ID:
Pine.GSO.4.20.9910252343500.934-100000@chopin.cs.uu.nl
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:29:48 +0300 (EET DST)
> From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
> To: perl5-porters@perl.org, packrats@history.perl.org,
> perl-packrats@cise.ufl.edu
> Subject: Happy birthday, CPAN!
> Sender: owner-perl-packrats@cise.ufl.edu
>
> CPAN is four years old today the 26th of October.
>
> Well, to pick nits, in 14 hours or so, CPAN went publicly online on
> Thursday 26th of October 1995 at 14:28:58 GMT, but at least the date
> is right, and that's usually close enough for a birthday...
A big thanks to you, Jarkko Hietaniemi.
Every time I mailed you about some minor problem,
I got a reply within 5 minutes. Great job.
Henk Penning
> --
> $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/
> # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'.
> # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
>
>
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