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<node id="511696" title="Re^3: PERL as shibboleth and the Perl community" created="2005-11-25 10:42:33" updated="2005-11-25 05:42:33">
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kiat</author>
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I think Perl is a little unique here. It's an acronym (therefore mistakely written as PERL) as well as being pronounceable, so written as Perl.&lt;p&gt;
A language name like Python doesn't share this uniqueness, in the sense that hardly anyone would write PYTHON. It's not an acronym but the name of an animal. And becuase it's a proper noun, so it's unambiguously written Python.&lt;p&gt;
PHP, on the other hand, is both an acronym and is unpronounceable. Consequently, it's rare to see it written as Php (I think).</field>
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