Glad we got that straightened up.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:01 AM, Cristóbal Palmer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cmp@cmpalmer.org">cmp@cmpalmer.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:00 PM, Jeremy Portzer <<a href="mailto:jeremyp@pobox.com">jeremyp@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> The fact that you call it PERL instead of Perl probably means you're not very proficient in that<br>
>> either :)<br>
>><br>
><br>
> What's wrong with that? The man page for PERL specifically spells it<br>
> that way in a couple of places and makes mention that it's an acronym<br>
> for "Practical Extraction and Report Language."<br>
<br>
</div><a href="http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?perl_vs_perl" target="_blank">http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?perl_vs_perl</a><br>
<br>
"Despite being a backronym, it is never correct to write PERL in all<br>
caps. Why? Honestly, because it's UGLY to scatter random all-caps<br>
NOUNS in your writing. It also hearkens back to<br>
things-which-are-written-in-all-caps-which-we-would-rather-forget,<br>
like COBOL or FORTRAN. Writing PERL in all caps is a strong red flag<br>
that the author does not know much Perl, or lives outside the Perl<br>
community who would have beaten^W charismatically deprogrammed such<br>
behavior out long ago."<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
Cristóbal M. Palmer<br>
"Small acts of humanity amid the chaos of inhumanity provide hope. But<br>
small acts are insufficient."<br>
-- Paul Rusesabagina<br>
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