Subj : Re: Perl and other programming language
To   : comp.programming
From : Willem
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 09:31 pm

John wrote:
) Ed Prochak wrote:
)> PERL is used very often though, so I'd say you are on the right track.
) Perl is NOT an acronym so PERL is never used.

'Practical Extraction and Report Language' is a backronym, however.


SaSW, Willem
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