Reflections on Perl and DBI from an Early Contributor
The name Buzz Moschetti probably isn’t familiar to you. Buzz was the author of the Perl 4 database for Interbase known as Interperl.
Back in those days Perl 5 was barely a twinkle in Larry’s eye and database interfaces for Perl 4 required building a custom perl binary.
http://blog.timbunce.org/2010/07/08/reflections-on-perl-and-dbi-from-an-early-contributor/
ps: Interabase & Firebird contributed stable api not only in the c and Delphi/Lazarus world but also in the Perl one with one of the first best drivers