Re^2: Web-designing using PERL

not PERL, it is not an acronym

You do know that the perl manual page disagrees with you, don't you? From the current blead:

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Perl officially stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language, except when it doesn't.

...

Perl actually stands for Pathological Eclectic Rubbish Lister, but don't tell anyone I said that.

Are you doubting the written words of Larry? The last phrase actually dates from the manual page of Perl 1.0. Which also mentions Practical Extraction and Report Language. Except that it does so in the NAME section, not the first line of DESCRIPTION.

Only if you send in a patch to p5p to remove the acronyms from the documentation, and get the patch accepted, I'll belief any claims Perl isn't an acronym. Otherwise, it's just your word against Larry's (who has the backing of p5p), and their word carries a lot more than yours.

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Re^3: Web-designing using PERL by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 26, 2012 at 17:19 UTC
That's a very selective reading. See also perlfaq1, and the lack of all-caps in the very first portion of the documentation you quoted. (Or ask Larry.)	[reply]
Re^4: Web-designing using PERL by JavaFan (Canon) on Mar 26, 2012 at 18:03 UTC
Can you be a bit more specific? That page contains a bunch of links. A quick sampling of the ones with a more promising title does not reveal anything that suggests the manual page is wrong. Perhaps you're referring to the question that says What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?, and for which the answer is: One bit. Oh, you weren't talking ASCII? :-) Larry now uses ``Perl'' to signify the language proper and ``perl'' the implementation of it, i.e. the current interpreter. Hence Tom's quip that ``Nothing but perl can parse Perl.'' You may or may not choose to follow this usage. For example, parallelism means ``awk and perl'' and ``Python and Perl'' look ok, while ``awk and Perl'' and ``Python and perl'' do not. I guess it would be better to link to a more current version of said question. For instance, current blead answers the question as: "Perl" is the name of the language. Only the "P" is capitalized. The name of the interpreter (the program which runs the Perl script) is "perl" with a lowercase "p". You may or may not choose to follow this usage. But never write "PERL", because perl is not an acronym. Now, I grant you, that says perl isn't an acronym. But if there's contradicting documentation, on the one hand we have have the Perl manual page, claiming something since perl-1.0, and maintained by p5p, and on the other hand we have a contradicting opinion from a document that's moderated by a single person, and is imported from CPAN, guess which one I consider should carry more weight? Now, I don't care jack shit whether Perl is written as perl, PERL, PeRl or someway else, or whether it's an acronym or not, but I do get pissed off at people who think they should belittle others when they assume Perl is an acronym. Fix your bloody documentation first, then tell others off .	[reply]
Re^5: Web-designing using PERL by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 26, 2012 at 18:58 UTC
Can you be a bit more specific? Happy to: the only place in the documentation that says "PERL" is perlfaq1, which says "never write 'PERL'". I don't care if you think "Perl" is an acronym, but that doesn't make "PERL" the name of the language. (I agree there's no reason to belittle someone who gets it wrong, but I won't hire anyone who doesn't know the name of the language—or doesn't care about details to get it right.)	[reply]
Re^6: Web-designing using PERL by JavaFan (Canon) on Mar 26, 2012 at 21:06 UTC
Re^7: Web-designing using PERL by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 26, 2012 at 21:31 UTC
Some notes below your chosen depth have not been shown here
Re^5: Web-designing using PERL by CountZero (Bishop) on Mar 26, 2012 at 19:05 UTC
but I do get pissed off at people who think they should belittle others when they assume Perl is an acronym Well, I was not intending to belittle anyone. Perhaps you can post a comment on Java-samples: Why was it named Perl?, to educate the other Java-heads as well? CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James My blog: Imperial Deltronics	[reply]