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Perl is Perl and not Pearl in part because there was a language named Pearl even when Larry wrote the first version.

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Re^3: It has been suggested to rename Perl 6 in order to boost its marketing potential. Which name would you prefer?
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 23, 2018 at 19:17 UTC
    I tried to find a link and when that failed assumed the PEARL language did not pan out. Oh well... Cool name: "Process and Experiment Automation Realtime Language" but the code in that PDF is mind-numbing. Thank you.