Re: [MacPerl] Re: Introduction

[Kevin van Haaren <kevinv@hockey.net>]

At 10:51 PM +0100 1999/7/4, Charlie Gray wrote:
>'   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

Last I heard, Perl is the language, perl is a particular implementation of
Perl implemented on certain OS's.  PERL is only used in shouting 8-)

Kevin

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