On Fri, 4 Feb 2000 21:45:11 +0100, "Sander" <san### [at] stolscom> wrote:

>Hey Peter,
>What is Perl ?

To quote Larry, the author of Perl,

"Perl actually stands for Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister, but
don't tell anyone I said that. "

"The Perl motto is ``There's more than one way to do it.'' Divining
how many more is left as an exercise to the reader. "

"The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience,
and Hubris. See the Camel Book for why. "

:)

It actually means Practical Extraction and Report Language. It is a
script, interpreted language (like POV :) ) which is very suitable,
among other things, for manipulating text streams.


Peter Popov
pet### [at] usanet
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