Some interesting tidbits on Perl as we acknowledge the breadth of this language’s impact on the IT world:
Larry Wall began work on Perl in 1987, while working as a programmer at Unisys and released version 1.0 to the comp.sources.misc newsgroup on December 18, 1987.
Perl was originally named "Pearl", but Wall discovered the existing PEARL programming language before Perl’s official release and changed the spelling of the name by simply dropping the ‘a’.
Perl is also sometimes thought to mean ‘Practical Extraction and Report Language’ which is really just a backronym.
The programming language Ruby was named as a joke, alluding to Perl’s name.
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