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From: poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: (f)flush?
Message-ID: <486@sunny.ucdavis.edu>
Date: 31 Jul 90 15:37:36 GMT
References: <7193@star.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: poage@sunny.ucdavis.edu (Tom Poage)
Organization: UCDMC Clinical Engineering, Sacto., CA
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In article <7193@star.cs.vu.nl> maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) writes:

>Trivia question: why wasn't the language called `Pearl'?  In the explanation
>of the acronym the `a' is even there!

I won't tell--Larry gave us the answer at a recent Unify Users Group meeting.

>% webster perl
>No definition  for 'perl'.  Maybe you mean:
>  1. peal                   2. pearl                  3. peel                  
...

Ohh.  What's this?  Is it, like, available?
Tom.
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Tom Poage, Clinical Engineering
Universiy of California, Davis, Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
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