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Gurusamy Sarathy
Gurusamy Sarathy
- Gurusamy Sarathy (CPAN ID:
GSAR) is a computer scientist and pivotal Perl 5 Pumpking (release manager for Perl 5.004_05 and Perl 5.6.0), renowned for porting Perl 5 natively to Windows (Win32) and leading major modernization efforts in the late 1990s. Connection to
chat2.pl- On July 26, 1999 (commit
a6d7165678), Sarathy added the official deprecation warning to the top of my 1991lib/chat2.pllibrary in the Perl 5 core distribution ("This library is no longer being maintained... Suggested alternative: Socket"), setting the stage for its removal ten months later at my request. See The 35-Year Story of chat.pl and chat2.pl.
- On July 26, 1999 (commit
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