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in reply to Re: Origins of the name Perl?
in thread Perl falls victim to shifting trends

Furthermore, Larry switched from "Pearl" to "Perl" after finding out "Pearl" was already the name of an existing language. (Legends go that it's the name of a language to do graphics in - it may be so, but I know there's also a language to write real time programs in that's called "Pearl").

Abigail