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People who are familiar with, and use Perl on a regular basis, are already aware. (TLDR: never capitalize the full PERL; the language is Perl, the executable i
by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
People who are familiar with, and use Perl on a regular basis, are already aware. (TLDR: never capitalize the full PERL; the language is Perl, the executable is perl, and anyone with much experience understands and communicates this difference.)
It is worth noting this SO answer[0], which is a reasonable heuristic when people are talking about Perl. (And, IMO, one of the few times to ignore pedantry is when it's being used as a Shibboleth[1]).
[0] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72312/how-should-i-capitalize-perl http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72312/how-should-i-capita...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth