"The World's Most Maintainable Programming Language"

Wed Apr 5 14:30:54 EDT 2006

Mirco Wahab wrote:

>  Perl, named after Pearl Biggar (Larry Wall’s fiancée),

His wife was Gloria since at least 1979, perl was published
in 1987.  This seems to be an insider joke (he wanted to call
the language "Gloria" first, then "pearl", then "perl").

>  set a high standard for naming techniques.

So we should rename Python into Cottonmouth to get more attention.

Ralf