On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:17:08 -0500, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:

>Wasn't Perl also taken, so why care...?  I vaguely remember reading
>about another language called PERL...

It was "Pearl", AFAIK. That's why the "a" got missing. So I've been
told... ("Practical Extracting And Reporting Language"... yup, there is
an "a" there.)

-- 
        Bart.

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