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by psergeant 3129 days ago
Why do you write it in all capitals?
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No good reason. Purely muscle memory that I picked up decades ago. Maybe I saw someone else do it[1] and just picked up a bad habit. I'll stop the all caps and write Perl from now on.

[1] http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=511722

Because they don't know much about contemporary Perl. It's actually a really good indicator of if someone actually knows anything about the language post the 90s. I used it as a soft hiring filter on CVs. You knew almost as matter of fact any dev putting that on their CV was self taught from monster nests of legacy.
I thought I was the only person who asked this.