Re: Perl Programming within Debian

Greg Folkert <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Practical Extraction and Reporting Language

Or, Practical Extraction and Report Language (per the man page)

Positively Eclectic Rubbish Lister

Or, Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (per the Camel Book)

I see, you don't read this list totally. (You or Keeling)

Perl is Perl, nothing else. Even though the man page says so... Or the
Camel Book or whatever.

I've been admonished by Perl core team members and Perl Monks and many
from the Perl mailing lists.

Perl is a bastardization of "Pearl". Larry Wall intended to call the
langauge "Pearl".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl



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