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[Daniel R. Allen]

I'll see your pedanticism, and raise you a pedant. :-)

perlfaq1 (man perlfaq1) says:

> What's the difference between "perl" and "Perl"?
>
> One bit. Oh, you weren't talking ASCII? :-) Larry now uses "Perl" to
> signify the language proper and "perl" the implementation of it,
> i.e. the current interpreter. Hence Tom's quip that "Nothing but
> perl can parse Perl." You may or may not choose to follow this
> usage. For example, parallelism means "awk and perl" and "Python and
> Perl" look OK, while "awk and Perl" and "Python and perl" do
> not. But never write "PERL", because perl is not an acronym,
> apocryphal folklore and post-facto expansions notwithstanding.

Cheers,
-Daniel


On 9 Feb 2004, Arguile wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 19:02, Daniel R. Allen wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > PS- the language is either "Perl" or "perl", but not PERL.  According to
> > Larry Wall, at least. :-)
>
> Actually, according to the great Wall (of Larry, not China) the language
> is "Perl" and the interpretter is "perl".
>
> How's that for pendantic?
>
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