| Russ Allbery 2006-11-25, 7:24 pm |
| Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> On 11/25/06 00:46, Greg Folkert wrote:
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> 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.
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