PEARL
1. <language, mathematics> A language for constructive mathematics 
developed by Constable at Cornell University in the 1980s.
 
2. <language, real-time> Process and Experiment Automation Real-Time 
Language.
 
3. <language, education> One of five pedagogical languages based on 
Markov algorithms, used in "Nonpareil, a Machine Level Machine Independent 
Language for the Study of Semantics", B. Higman, ULICS Intl Report No ICSI 170, 
U London (1968). Compare Brilliant, Diamond, Nonpareil, Ruby.
 
4. <language> A multilevel language developed by Brian Randell ca 1970 
and mentioned in "Machine Oriented Higher Level Languages", W. van der Poel, N-H 
1974.
 
5. <language, tool, history> An obsolete term for Larry Wall's PERL 
programming language, which never fell into common usage other than in 
typographical errors. The missing 'a' remains as an atrophied remnant in the 
expansion "Practical Extraction and Report Language".
 
["Programming Perl", Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz, O'Reilly & Associates, 
Inc. Sebastopol, CA. ISBN 0-93715-64-1].
 
(2000-08-16)
 
  
 
  
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