On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 04:26:13 +0000, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 03:02:13 +1000, Steven D'Aprano > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in > comp.lang.python: > >> >> The language is *always* spelt without the "a", and usually all in >> lower-case: perl. >> > Given that, at least one well known, book relates the name to > Practical Extraction (&) Report Language, whether that was a retrofit or > not -- I'd be tempted to user PERL for the name...
According to Larry Wall, PERL is *officially* wrong and should *never* be used. > All lowercase most > likely reflects the standard habits of Linux/Unix command naming. And since Larry came from that tradition, you are most likely correct. And that is why originally the official name of the language was all lowercase. Things change, and now Perl is officially the name of the language, and perl officially the name of the implementation of the language. Reading the Perl FAQs at www.perl.org is a good place to start. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
