Perl is not an acronym, Larry wanted to call it Pearl, but there was already a language by that name. Also we tend to prefer Perl 6 to be spelled with a non-br

Perl is not an acronym, Larry wanted to call it Pearl, but there was already a language by that name. Also we tend to prefer Perl 6 to be spelled with a non-breaking space before the 6. [U+A0] Perl 6 has features from many sources, so it is indeed a departure from Lisp.