Perl: the Markov chain saw | |
PerlMonks |
Re: Is the name perl a handicapby neophyte (Curate) |
on Jan 15, 2001 at 14:49 UTC ( [id://51895]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I would also like to know which sadist techi told him what 'PERL' stands for.
I remember having read somewhere (sorry, I don't remember where exactly) about Larry Walls pains to name what he had created. Apparently he sifted through a dictionary searching for words with some kind of positive connotation. Finally he came up with Pearl, but Pearl with the a in it was taken. So he took the a out of it.All the explanations like "Practical extraction and report language" or even "Pathologically ecclectic rubbish lister" came up much later. Most people recognize the second explanation as a joke but not the first. Please tell me what Pascal stands for - or C. ;) neophyte Niederrhein.pm
In Section
Meditations
|
|