in reply to PERL Mentality

From 'man perlfaq1':
What's the difference between ""perl"" and ""Perl""? One bit. Oh, you weren't talking ASCII? :-) Larry now uses "Perl" to +signify the language proper and "perl" the implementation of it, i.e. the curr +ent interpreter. Hence Tom's quip that "Nothing but perl can parse Perl." + You may or may not choose to follow this usage. [...] But never write "PERL", because perl isn't really an acronym, aprocryp +hal folklore and post-facto expansions notwithstanding.

I don't mean to be a smart-ass, but I noticed you used "PERL" in your other
two other posts today as well.

-- ar0n | Just Another Perl Joe

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(zdog) RE: (2) PERL Mentality
by zdog (Priest) on Aug 06, 2000 at 00:44 UTC
    Wups! I guess your right. I never read that before. Although, doesn't "perl" (see I'm learning already) stand for "Practical Extraction and Report Language". I guess I got confused. Thanx for the correction.

    Zenon Zabinski | zdog | zdog7@hotmail.com

      For those that would like to think perl is somewhat sane, yes, to the rest of us its:

      Pathological Eclectic Rubbish Locator

      Which of course makes more sense :)

      Cheers,
      Gryn