Re: [MacPerl] Re: Introduction

[Charlie Gray <charlie@snake-oil.demon.co.uk>]

Hello Everybody

>On Fri, Jul 02, 1999 at 11:42:00PM -0600, jason white wrote:
>>
>> PERL has  bright future (IMHO).
>
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 10:13:11 -0400 ronald j kimball wrote:
>
>Perl, the language, has a bright future.  perl, the compiler, probably has
>a bright future as well.  PERL, on the other hand, does not exist.
>
>Ronald
>
In case anyone's interested, and sort of on the subject, I saw this in
David Medinets' book (online version) Perl 5 By Example recently:

'   Is it "Perl" or "perl"? The definitive word from Larry Wall is that it
doesn't matter. Many programmers like to refer to languages with
capitalized names (Perl) but the program originated on a UNIX system where
short, lower-case names  (awk, sed, and so forth) were the norm. As with so
many things about the language, there's no single "right way" to do it;
just use it the way you want. It's a tool, after all, not a dogma.  If
you're sufficiently pedantic, you may want to call it "[Pp]erl"    '

Charlie

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