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davidw
on Jan 17, 2014
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Happy 25th Tcl
Perl is an acronym too.
draegtun
on Jan 17, 2014
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Actually Perl comes from the shortening of
Pearl
. It then later became a backronym.
ref:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Name
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