[plug] programming

Jens Porup jens at cyber.com.au
Thu Sep 18 15:51:02 WST 2003


On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:36:14PM +0800, Ben New wrote:
> writing.  Perl also apparently stands for "practical extraction and 
> reporting language" ;-)

...only retroactively. Someone else coined that phrase a fair while
after Larry Wall named the language. ;)

Cheers,

Jens
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