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Re^7: PERL as shibboleth and the Perl communityby TimToady (Parson) |
on Nov 25, 2005 at 17:47 UTC ( [id://511722]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
More than just being a single backronym, in adding its second gloss "perl" was intentionally turned into a backronym generator. It would be interesting linguistically to categorize backronyms into those that are productive and
those that are fossilized. Certainly "perl" is still productive: "Polymorphic Existential Recursive Lambdas" is just the lastest one.
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