[jph00]

No it's not PERL, it's either Perl or perl, depending on what you're refering to.

https://wiki.c2.com/?PerlIsNotAnAcronym

I've been using Perl and Python for over 20 years. Both are delightful, in their own way.

[diekhans]

I stand corrected, I had "Practical Extraction and Report Language" wired into my brain when I fist used in version 1.*.

Disliked is horrible syntactic and semantic complexity then as I do now.

However, that didn't stop people from doing great things with it.

Now, I have to find a bug in someone's Perl program