Why the Perl DBI?

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Once upon a time:

Perl4: oraperl, ingperl, uniperl, fooperl

Ted Lemon: “Wouldn’t it be nice if” - Sept 29th 1992

Applications portable between databases

Skills portable between databases!

A vision of the future - Talk, talk, talk- the dbperl-interest mailing list

Buzz Moschetti, Kevin Stock, Kurt Andersen, Ted Lemon

June 93:

Kevin and Kurt changed jobs and left the list.

30 people on the list. I took the lead at that point.

Jan 1994:

Dbperl spec is progressing and Perl 5 appears on the horizon

June 1994:

Perl 5 alpha releases becoming stable. Almost 200 people on list.

Prototype pure-perl ‘testbed’ released for experimentation.

Sept 1994 (Two years and 600 messages - 2MB - later...):

Renamed to DBI and DBD.

First release of the DBI (with a pure-perl driver)

The future is now:

continuous development

interface stabilizing and more fully documented