in reply to Are programmers getting too lazy for perl?

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

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Re^2: Are programmers getting too lazy for perl?
by zer (Deacon) on Oct 03, 2007 at 13:25 UTC
    thats an interesting point

    i was refering to exactly that with the definition. As even in the perldocs that is what it says.

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      It also says that it really stands for "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister", so don't always believe what you read :-)
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