On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 11:14 -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >
Please don't take Wikipedia as *THE* reference. Yes it is correct, in
this case.
Therefore that leaves:
Perl is just Perl, nothing else.
Why even argue when you say the same thing.
Please remember, I said Perl core team and Perl Monks... (#7
specifically http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=26179 )
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