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[Shlomi Fish]

Hello Amos,

On Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:12:05 +1100
Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 11 October 2012 19:41, Shlomi Fish <shlomif at shlomifish.org> wrote:
> 
> > Just a note: one should never write perl or Perl in all-capital
> > letters:
> >
> > http://perl-begin.org/learn/Perl-perl-but-not-PERL/
> >
> > Writing "PERL" is usually an indication that the person does not
> > really know what they are talking about.
> >
> 
> But it's an acronym (for "Pathologically Eclectic Rubish Lister") :)
> 

“Perl” is not an acronym, but a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym 
, and the name Perl was chosen first, as a compromise for the fact that
Larry Wall wanted to call his language "Pearl", but there was a previous
language named that - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEARL_%28programming_language%29
. He later came up with two possible expansions for "Perl", but they are
not the origin:

* Practical Extraction and Report Language

* Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister

“Pearl” was chosen after the "Parable of the Pearl" from the Gospel
of Matthews:

http://www.java-samples.com/showtutorial.php?tutorialid=1437

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> --Amos



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