-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/06 13:54, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On 11/25/06 00:46, Greg Folkert wrote: > >>> Ron, please stop that urban legend. Perl is Perl not P.E.R.L as you >>> say. > >>> I have been corrected for saying that, by more than one Perl Monk, also >>> by Mr. Wall. > >>> Perl is Perl. It has no meaning other than Perl. > >> 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.
Does an official-looking top-of-the-man-page backronym that does not indicate that it is a backronym *become* canonical, simply by reason that it's at the top of the official man page? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFaMmBS9HxQb37XmcRAlW6AKCunI2NNO0894T4kXGbAN5YRmtQwwCg7uv6 wVuLHMAY/uJmFagQ1ObELyw= =YNMG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
