By Perl's definition I hope you're not talking about the rather pointless "Practical Extraction and Report Language", because that's an empty historical retro-fact. As in, it doesn't do anything to describe modern Perl, nor does it distinguish Perl from anything else. Nor is it particularly accurate since it's a backronym.

I agree with the flaw of not mentioning CPAN.

But I'll also disagree about the diversions. Golf and JAPHs are cute info for advanced Perl people who have spare time, but don't belong in any core discussion of the language either. They're even more useless than the backronym expansion.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

In reply to Re: Are programmers getting too lazy for perl? by merlyn
in thread Are programmers getting too lazy for perl? by zer

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