From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-11-05T13:59:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby making inroads at big corporation... small anecdote.

Stephen Waits wrote:
> James Britt wrote:
> 
>>
>> Perhaps the real sign of Big Corporate Acceptance will be when people 
>> start referring to RUBY.
> 
> 
> Sorry.. in my day I learned PERL as Practical Extraction and Reporting 
> Language.  Maybe I learned it wrong a dozen years ago..
> 

I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to poke fun at you; I've just grown 
accustomed  to seeing job ads and recruitment E-mail that refers to 
PERL, JAVA, and similar miscapitalizations.  And I figure it is only a 
matter of time before buzz-oriented HR folks start asking for RUBY 
experience.

Anyways, in the spirit of geek pedantry: Perl is not an acronym.  It is 
a backronym or retronym, as the meaning of individual letters was 
retrofitted to the name of the language after it was chosen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl



James


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