Re: Perl quiz for beginners

[eyepopslikeamosquito]

Typo alert: question seven has the phrase "It is sed" twice. The use of English in your quiz needs improving.

Also, the quiz has no humour. At all. I think humorous options to one or two questions would improve it. For some example quiz questions (some of which have humorous alternatives) see Running a Perl Quiz Night.

From the draft Oxford English Dictionary entry cited on history.perl.org:

Perl Brit.
Perl, perl, irreg. PERL
Computing.
perl n. ,
arbitrarily chosen for its positive connotations, with omission of -a- to differentiate it from an existing programming language called Pearl. Coined by Larry Wall in the summer of 1987; the program was publicly released on 18 December of that year. Acronymic expansions of the name (such as Practical Extraction and Report Language and Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister), though found in the earliest documention for the language, were formed after the name had been chosen. Coinage details confirmed by personal communication from L. Wall, May 2000. A high-level interpreted programming language widely used for a variety of tasks and especially for applications running on the World Wide Web. The form Perl is preferred for the language itself; perl is used for the interpreter for the Perl language.

[Anonymous Monk]

Oops seems typo mistake. modified and updated.
Thanks to all of you who made that quiz little worthy now :)