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Joke or not? (Score:2)

by djberg96 (2603)

Well, you can blame Larry Wall (I think) for "retrofitting" Perl into an acronym. I certainly don't blame people for the confusion. You will also note from the 5.8.2. source, in Meta.YML:
name: perl
version: 5.008001
abstract: Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
- Re:Joke or not? (Score:1)
  
  by bart (450)
  
  Version is 5.008001, for Perl 5.8.2? It looks like somebody forgot to update it, then.

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Joke or not? (Score:2)

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