>>>>> "Barbie" == Barbie [home] <Barbie> writes:
Barbie> When I first came across Perl in 1998 I was told a story that Barbie> Larry thought C++ should have been called P, following on from Barbie> BCPL, which then became B, which transformed into C. Having Barbie> missed a letter, Larry decided to use the remaining two Barbie> letters for his language. How true all that is I have no idea, Barbie> may be Damian, Nat or Randal can ask larry next time they see Barbie> him :) That's from the Apocryphal edition of the Perl Bible. Some believe and swear by it. Others trust only the canonical version. :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!
