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Re: Perl Programming within Debian



On Sun, 2006-12-31 at 11:14 -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
> Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote:
> > > > Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
> > > 
> > > Or, Practical Extraction and Report Language (per the man page)
> > >  
> > > > Positively Eclectic Rubbish Lister
> > > 
> > > Or, Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister (per the Camel Book)
> > 
> > I see, you don't read this list totally. (You or Keeling)
> > 
> > Perl is Perl, nothing else. Even though the man page says so... Or the
> > Camel Book or whatever.
> > 
> > I've been admonished by Perl core team members and Perl Monks and many
> > from the Perl mailing lists.
> 
> 	Perl is a bastardization of "Pearl". Larry Wall intended to call the
> langauge "Pearl".
> 
> 	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl
> 

Please don't take Wikipedia as *THE* reference. Yes it is correct, in
this case.

Therefore that leaves:

	Perl is just Perl, nothing else.

Why even argue when you say the same thing.

Please remember, I said Perl core team and Perl Monks... (#7
specifically http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=26179 )
-- 
greg, greg@gregfolkert.net

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