Re: perl should be improved and perl6

Abigail wrote:
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'.
It certainly does to that someone - and indeed to others as well. One need not ask for permission to think.
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