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PERL

It's either Perl or perl, but never PERL. Perl is the language, perl is its implementation (i.e. the interpreter/binary).

A very good free resource for learning Perl is http://learn.perl.org/library/beginning_perl/. 

Juerd
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Re: Re: One-Weekend Ultimate Review Session
by grantm (Parson) on Apr 27, 2003 at 04:00 UTC

    I too find it jarring when I see PERL in a sentence. Unfortunately it's just as distracting that every time someone makes the mistake on Perl Monks, someone has to reply with a correction. Perhaps the node preview page could detect the presence of /\bPERL\b/ and warn the poster in huge red letters that they will be flamed if they fail to correct the capitalisation - it might deter one or two :-)

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      This is a story of a girl
She just wanted to learn some Perl
Asked the monks for some advice
They screamed back at her "No Dice!"
"You typed 'PERL" they whined
Now, no answers shall ye find

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[d/l]
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