Overcoming herpetophobia (or what's up w/ Python scopes)?

[Leif K-Brooks]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> The language is *always* spelt without the "a", and usually all in
> lower-case: perl.

The language is title-cased (Perl), but the standard interpreter is
written in all lowercase (perl). Sort of like the distinction between
Python and CPython.