Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11/25/06 00:46, Greg Folkert wrote:
>> Ron, please stop that urban legend. Perl is Perl not P.E.R.L as you >> say. >> I have been corrected for saying that, by more than one Perl Monk, also >> by Mr. Wall. >> Perl is Perl. It has no meaning other than Perl. > I guess I'd better file a bug against the perl package then. > PERL(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL(1) > NAME > perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language It's a back-formation, as is "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister" (later in the man page). The language is actually named after "Pearl" but since there was already a language named that, Larry Wall dropped the "a". Since then, a few acronyms were made up to fit the letters. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
