Ben C <spamspam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On 2008-01-03, John Bokma <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> alexcombs1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>
>>> Out of curiosity, what problem were you trying to address or improve
>>> upon over and above what the standard PHP, PERL,
>>
>> It's Perl, not PERL (it's not an acronym).
>
> I thought it was supposed to stand for "Practical Extraction and Re****t
> Language".
Then you thought wrong. Larry wanted to name the language Pearl, but since
there was already a language called PEARL, he just dropped one letter.
> Either that or "Perversely Eccentric and Ridiculous Line-noise".
The latter originates in the fact that too many people think they can
program. They produce unreadable code no matter which language you let
them work in. A programming language can not fix incompetence.
--
John Bokma http://johnbokma.com/
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