[mistrial9]

yes and, one of Perl's design goals was literally "report generation" .. which it turns out, might be in HTML format

[hedora]

It can't do reports. It's a rubbish lister.

It's also clearly not an anagram of REPL. I wonder if anyone ever figured out how to write REPL with a keyboard. I'd like to learn it some day.

(REPL was written in a crazy character set and relied on custom printed punch cards. I think it was the perl of its day.)