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Re:How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition by ape4 on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:06PM (#6137718)
PERL -- Practical Extraction and Report Language http://www.cs.cmu.edu/htbin/perl-man
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Re:How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition by leont on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:16PM (#6137763)
That is an unofficial manpage for perl 4, a release that has been obsolete since 1994…
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Re:How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition by nzgrover on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @09:11PM (#6137986)
I always preferred Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. Please note I say this lovingly, as a former Perl programmer.
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Re:How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition by btilly on Thursday August 01, 2013 @12:11AM (#6138586)
Click on the BUGS link to get to http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/rgs/pl-bugs.... which ends with the alternate definition.

Larry Wall has told me that the fact that he had two acronyms that he liked for it was one of the reasons that he chose the name Perl.

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Re:How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition by hcles on Thursday August 01, 2013 @12:54AM (#6138750)
No, that is a backronym.

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

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Re:How YouPorn Uses Redis: SFW Edition by AsymetricCom on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @08:18PM (#6137782)
Yes, we know how to google here. We also know how to read more than a few sentences in a row, and understand context of statements.
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