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Re: It's Your Choice, Europe: Rebel Against the Banks or A... by roel_v on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @07:25AM (#3319013)
Fed (Federal Reserve) and Mac (Macintosh) are not acronyms, just abbreviations. Perl is an acronym though. That's not to say that it should be PERL - over the years, 'Perl' has become a word of itself, but the reason it's not is different from the other examples you quote, so as a series they don't make sense.

(Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, btw)

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Re: It's Your Choice, Europe: Rebel Against the Banks or A... by peteretep on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @08:56AM (#3319242)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Name
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