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<em> > Actually Perl isn't an acronym, that is a backronym. </em>
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Interesting. I've always known that I've been programming in Perl and not PERL. But I always assumed that the name came from "Practical Extraction..." or maybe "Pathologically Eclectic..." Does anyone know the story of how Larry chose the name Perl, if it's not an acronym?
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It might even be worth passing this info along to the maintainers of the lexicon, since [http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Perl.html | its entry for Perl] is under the same misimpression I was...
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