in reply to Re^9: Web-designing using PERL
in thread Web-designing using PERL

The name was never my point. But you don't seem to get them, stuck in your ideas.

My point is, considering the main documentation, presented to you when you type in man perl or perldoc perl strongly suggests it's an acronym.

Really, if the main documentation starts its description with Perl officially stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language, you can scribble all you want in a CPAN maintained piece of documentation, but people will keep thinking Perl is an acronym, and I will keep correcting people who jump up and down because they remember a bit of trivia and slap people in the face with it.

Again, either fix the bloody documentation, or shut up when someone thinks PERL is an acronym.

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Re^11: Web-designing using PERL
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 26, 2012 at 23:37 UTC
    ... people will keep thinking Perl is an acronym...

    So what? People think all kinds of silly things; that's why they ask questions on here when their misunderstandings create buggy programs.

    The name of the language isn't "PERL". The documentation is clear. The only place it refers to "PERL" is to say that that's not the name of the language.

    (If "PERL" were the name of the language, the documentation you quoted would likely say "PERL stands for...". It doesn't. QED.)

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      I could once again say I'm not argueing its name. Never did. But you keep thinking I do.

      Keep on dreaming.

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Re^11: Web-designing using PERL
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 26, 2012 at 23:35 UTC
    "Again, either fix the bloody documentation, or shut up when someone thinks PERL is an acronym."

    Wow. Would you please go back to coding JAVA and leave us alone?

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      Can't do. I was banned from coding jaVA because I didn't care about its capitalization.

      Are you borrowing from the jAvA culture by trying to ban me?

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