On 2022-03-06 09:29:19 -0800, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2022-03-05, Avi Gross via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> > I am not sure how we end up conversing about PASCAL on a Python
> > forum.
> > [...]
> > I paid no attention to where PASCAL was being used other than I did
> > much of my grad school work in PASCAL [...]
> 
> It's "Pascal". It's not an acronym. It's a guy's name:
> 
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal

And similarly, it's "Perl", not "PERL" (also misspelled in this thread).

        hp

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