From: Dan Sugalski <dan@...>
Date: 2002-06-01T03:03:14+09:00
Subject: RE: Ruby jobs

At 2:26 AM +0900 6/1/02, Sean Russell wrote:
>james@rubyxml.com wrote:
>>  I'm always amused when I see someone write Perl using ALL CAPITALS.
>>  (Though it's even funnier when people write JAVA.)
>
>You're spot on about Java, but PERL is a correct spelling.
>
>I've read that the /preferred/ spelling is Perl, but the name "Perl" itself
>originated as an acronym: "Practical Extraction and Reporting Language", so
>it is proper to capitalize it.  Especially since the word doesn't exist
>outside of the programming context (except, perhaps, as a proper name for a
>person).

Nope. Perl is, like so many other things in the realm of computers, 
an after-the-fact acronym. It really was just "Perl" to start with, 
not standing for anything in particular.
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                                         Dan

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