Sujet : Re: Procedural, Functional, String [was Re: The joy of FORTRAN]
De : drb (at) *nospam* ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 30. Sep 2024, 01:54:56
Autres entêtes
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> > Except it was never “PERL”, always “Perl”.
Tell that to the Camel book.
> I remember it as being an acronym for Programmer's Eclectic Report
> Language = hence all-caps.
Practical Extraction and Report Language, or Pathologically Eclectic
Rubbish Lister, according to the creators.
De