Re^7: PERL as shibboleth and the Perl community

More than just being a single backronym, in adding its second gloss "perl" was intentionally turned into a backronym generator. It would be interesting linguistically to categorize backronyms into those that are productive and those that are fossilized. Certainly "perl" is still productive: "Polymorphic Existential Recursive Lambdas" is just the lastest one.

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Re^8: PERL as shibboleth and the Perl community by tilly (Archbishop) on Nov 25, 2005 at 22:23 UTC
Is there a list somewhere online of these? Adding a few more off of the top of my head: Perl's an Extremely Reliable Language People Earn Respect Lazily Perfection Enters Real Life Programmers Everywhere Relish Leisure And so on..	[reply]
Re^9: PERL as shibboleth and the Perl community by merlyn (Sage) on Nov 25, 2005 at 22:56 UTC
Provides Employment for Randal's Lectures. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re^9: PERL as shibboleth and the Perl community by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Feb 28, 2006 at 21:41 UTC
There are some more at Perl Etymology, a Recondite List. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]