On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Devdas Bhagat wrote:
> I prefer to stick to capitals for abbreviations.
> Devdas Bhagat
It's not yours or mine to choose. Larry Wall wants it that way. Perl
isn't an acronym
man perlfaq1
/difference between
What's the difference between ""perl"" and ""Perl""?
One bit. Oh, you weren't talking ASCII? :-) Larry now
uses "Perl" to signify the language proper and "perl" the
implementation of it, i.e. the current interpreter. Hence
Tom's quip that "Nothing but perl can parse Perl." You
may or may not choose to follow this usage. For example,
parallelism means "awk and perl" and "Python and Perl"
look ok, while "awk and Perl" and "Python and perl" do
--> not. But never write "PERL", because perl isn't really an
acronym, aprocryphal folklore and post-facto expansions
notwithstanding.
Philip
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