I always thought the official name was "Practical Extraction and Report Language", or perl for short. I think that's a backronym (albeit from L. Wall). http:/

I always thought the official name was "Practical Extraction and Report Language", or perl for short. I think that's a backronym (albeit from L. Wall). http://wordsmith.org/words/backronym.html http://wordsmith.org/words/backronym.html