* Drew Broadley <drew(a)corrupt.co.nz> [2004-04-27 05:08]:
Grr, I have always been taught to refer to PERL the language in general as PERL because of its acronym.
That can't have been by anyone actually part of the Perl community though.. as you would have been taught to refer to it as "Perl" long ago in places like clpm, Perlmonks, or one of the perl.org mailinglists.
Was this an update in documentation since the v5.8.0 release to refer to it as "Perl"?
No. It has been there for ages. Looking at CPAN, the first release which included the "never write PERL" bit is 5.005_03 (released Mar 28, 1999): http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl5.005_03/pod/perlfaq1.pod The previous version, 5.005_02 (released Aug 8, 1998), did not include it: http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl5.005_02/pod/perlfaq1.pod In other words, this bit has been in the FAQ since the end of 1998. -- Regards, Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."