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Re:If PHP Were British by tingletech on Saturday August 20, 2011 @12:54PM (#2907032)
$ perldoc perl

  NAME
       perl − Practical Extraction and Report Language
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Re:If PHP Were British by fferen on Saturday August 20, 2011 @10:19PM (#2908330)
From Wikipedia: "There is some contention about the all-caps spelling "PERL", which the documentation declares incorrect[28] and which some core community members consider a sign of outsiders.[29] The name is occasionally backronymed as Practical Extraction and Report Language, which appears at the top of the documentation[27] and in some printed literature.[30]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Name

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