in reply to What is it about perl that makes perl so cool?

An acronym doesn't have to spell a word, Mr. Grammar genious. An abbreviation is part of a word (NASA, RADAR), an acronym is the first letter of many words (amt=amount) http://www.webster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary
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Re: Re: What is it about perl that makes perl so cool?
by Elgon (Curate) on Dec 10, 2000 at 22:18 UTC

    On the other hand I can spell 'genius'.

    Elgon

Re: Re: What is it about perl that makes perl so cool?
by Elgon (Curate) on Dec 10, 2000 at 22:16 UTC

    You are indeed right.

    I humbly beg forgiveness. I shall write 1000 lines of COBOL as penance.

    Elgon