[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bradley M. Kuhn) writes: > My fiancee and her sister were playing "Trivial Pursuit Genus 5" tonight, > and they discovered a card in the SN (Science and Nature) section that > asked: > > * What Web development language is an acronym for "pathological eclectic > rubbish lister"? > > The card listed the answer as "Perl" (fortunately, not "PERL" ;).
Well, duh. They say it's an acronym, and they say what it stands for. What idiot can't take the first letter of 4 words to produce "PERL"? > I found two interesting advocacy lessons in this: > > * The main stream in many cases still sees Perl as web-specific, > despite our efforts to remind people that this is ludicrous. And since Java has all but killed Perl's web-specific niche, this is very significant. > * The goofiness and downright good-natured humor of the Perl community > tends to be what gets mainstream people interested. Perhaps we can > harness that to make better connections with the main stream. I think the goofiness is one reason why corporate acceptance has not been forthcoming (it's not "professional"). You don't see that kind of humor in Java's documentation... --Bill. -- William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wards.net/~bill/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
