acronym?

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Re: acronym? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Feb 27, 2007 at 04:59 UTC
No, "Perl" does not stand for "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language" (or anything else). Refer to the docs.	[reply]
Re^2: acronym? by DrHyde (Prior) on Feb 27, 2007 at 09:55 UTC
PERL stands for Politely Expressed Racoon Love	[reply]
Re: acronym? by virtualsue (Vicar) on Feb 27, 2007 at 09:43 UTC
That's apparently a jokey backronym, but it's quite apt so it has persisted, helped along by the fact that the name "Perl" looks like an acronym. The story AIUI is that the desired name 'Pearl' was already in use for another computer language, so the originator (Larry Wall) damaged the spelling in a way that would keep the pronounciation the same. This has caused it to turn into a sort of shibboleth which stupid people sometime use to bash perceived newbies, but what the hell. Try to ignore it.	[reply]
Re^2: acronym? by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 27, 2007 at 15:18 UTC
ref. PERL as shibboleth and the Perl community by merlyn	[reply]
Re^2: acronym? by NovMonk (Chaplain) on Feb 27, 2007 at 13:57 UTC
I prefer "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister" myself.... Wonder whatever happened to the "Pearl" computer language? Pax, NovMonk	[reply]
Re^2: acronym? by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Aug 02, 2007 at 19:58 UTC
I always thought in that case that Larry could have gone for "Purl". After all, Perl is often used to knit things together.	[reply]
Re^3: acronym? (CB) by tye (Sage) on Aug 02, 2007 at 20:20 UTC
I think the chatterbox should be subtitled "nit won, perl too". - tye	[reply]
Re: acronym? by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on Feb 27, 2007 at 17:11 UTC
Practical Extraction and Reporting Language? Pretty Eclectic Rubbish Lister Pretty Excellent Realization Language or whatever else your imagination can come up with. But, really... as someone else has pointed out it really isn't an acronym for anything. Read the docs. Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg	[reply]