Ricardo Signes wrote: > The problems with pearls include: (a) promoting mispeling Perl as Pearl and > (b) > a pearl reduces, in its simplest depiction, to a circle. It's not very > visually distinctive.
They're pronounced the same way. Perl as a pearl is a pun, a play on words. (Of course, some people have no sense of humour.) What's wrong with a circle? It represents the wholeness and completeness of form. > An onion can be pretty pared down before you lose sight of what it is. I pared many an onion and you loose sight of it when the tears start to flow. :) -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy.
