On 10/7/06, @ Rocteur CC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was just reading The State of the Onion 10 http://www.perl.com/pub/ a/2006/09/21/onion.html by Larry, and if you have not read it I think you will enjoy it. I really ROFL when I saw that Randal was our own Evil Brother Damian ;-)
No; Damian is Damian and Randal is Randal. Damian is the one from the other end of the planet; oddly, his insanity is also roughly 160 degrees out-of-phase with Randal's.
Anyway, Larry refers to Perl as SHE.. Does anyone know when Perl became a SHE and why ?
Probably from the beginning. Larry is a linguist, and he's aware that nouns can have gender. He took a lot of care picking the name Perl. Some alternative names Larry considered were Pearl and Gloria, both unmistakeably feminine. The latter would be to name the language after his wife; but he realized that people might one day misunderstand if he were overheard saying "I just can't get Gloria to do what I want these days." For another data point, he's also said that he doesn't know how he overlooked the name Ruby (feminine, and also has a gemstone connotation) when he scoured lists of four- and five-letter words in search of a suitable name for Perl. Of course, by (mis-)spelling it as he did, he made it much easier to find once web searches were invented; so it seems to have been a good choice. Cheers! --Tom Phoenix Stonehenge Perl Training -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
