Re: perl should be improved and perl6

RedGrittyBrick wrote:
Gordon Etly wrote:

The //official documentation// defines PERL as being "Practical
Extraction and Report Language",

That definition in full:
"perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language"

The //official documentation// says 'never write "PERL"'

It does not explicitly, I never claimed otherwise. It does write it
implicitly, as "Practical Extraction and Report Language", which can be
condensed into "PERL".

--
Etly


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