I had actually written an earlier date but then I realized I was talking about Perl :)

I think perl was created in the early 90s, correct?

I believe the annals of history say 87

[0] "1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall's forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall's monitor isn't random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born."

[0] - http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...

+1 for linking such beautiful annals

I misunderstood your post. You are 100% correct about perl.

I understood it as 'shell computing with stdin and stdout streams of characters' instead of structured data coming in and going out.