Must be my Win32 background. I am not case sensitive. I find argumants about perl, PERL, Perl a waste of time. However I find the fact that anyone makes the claim that PERL does not stand for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language to be *historically inaccurate*. Download the original Perl 1 source from here Within it you can easily grep the man page which is: 

.TH PERL 1 LOCAL
.SH NAME
perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B perl [options] filename args
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Perl
is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files,
extracting information from those text files, and printing reports bas
+ed
on that information.

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You may note that in the first 5 lines Larry himself uses PERL, perl and Perl as well as using the capitalisation Practical Extraction and Report Language.

So call it what you want and say it means whatever you like. Does it *really* matter? Can I extract one gram worth of extra meaning from how someone capitalises pErL? OK so that looks script kiddie to me :-) Could you blame Larry for the 'confusion' by using PERL, perl, Perl, and Practical Extraction and Report Language in the first 5 lines of the original man page.

cheers

tachyon

In reply to Re^3: MySQL and Perl by tachyon
in thread MySQL and PERL by Anonymous Monk

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