Sujet : Re: Procedural, Functional, String [was Re: The joy of FORTRAN]
De : p.dean (at) *nospam* invalid.net (Peter Dean)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 30. Sep 2024, 00:36:29
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In alt.folklore.computers Lars Poulsen <
lars@beagle-ears.com> wrote:
On 29/09/2024 16:21, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
Except it was never “PERL”, always “Perl”.
I remember it as being an acronym for Programmer's Eclectic Report
Language = hence all-caps.
one of many backronyms