From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-06-01T04:46:54+09:00
Subject: RE: Ruby jobs

Pat Eyler wrote:
> Not quite, Perl started as Pearl, named for Larry's girlfriend at the
> time.  When he found that Pearl the language existed, he shortened it to
> Perl.  (Note thought that 'Practical Extraction And Reporting Language'
> would still work for the earlier name as well.)  (Also note, I believe it
> had another name before Pearl ... but can't remember what it was.)

Doh!  Note to self: read /all/ postings on topic before replying.

:-)

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