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
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