Hi,

Pearl is in fact the name of a (not-very-elegant) programming language you may use for robotics. My first contact with Perl was indeed, when I learned Perl and then came into the course, where they expected people to know Pearl. Man - I nearly collapsed. Then - they allowed to program either in C or Pearl.

Me and a guy took the C, the rest of the class Pearl, we finished 90% of the exercises, the Pearl-people 30-40%. So you really aren't interested in this language. :-)

Oh well - if you are: Look here

Bye
 PetaMem

In reply to Re: Re: Origins of the name Perl? by PetaMem
in thread Perl falls victim to shifting trends by vladb

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