Re: perl should be improved and perl6

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Gordon Etly (get@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on VCCCXXXIII September MCMXCIII in
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%% Even Larry himself dubbed Perl as meaning what the NAME line says it is,
%% so why continue to push something that is proven wrong by both it's
%% top-most document and it's creator?
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%% http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3394
%%
%% "Eventually I came up with the name "pearl", with the gloss
%% Practical Extraction and Report Language"
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%% This is, by any definition, an acronym, spelled out in full. Given that
%% the 'a' was dropped, you get P-E-R-L out of it.


No, it's not.

It would be an acronym if he came up with 'Practical Extraction and
Report Language' *FIRST*, then took the starting letters to make a word.

But he didn't. He came up with 'Pe(a)rl', and given that name, constructed
'Practical Extraction and Report Language'. Which makes the latter a derivate
of the first, making 'Practical Extraction and Report Language' an Acrostic
of 'Perl' (instead of Perl being an acronym).


Dodge doesn't become an acronym because someone came up with
'Darn Old Dirty Gas Eater'.



Abigail
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!$r[--$#r];){}}while$=;$,="\x20";print+$_=>September=>MCMXCIII=>=>=>=>=>=>=>=>'
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