On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 01/19/2017 04:31 PM, Dan Roganti wrote:
well, you can wonder how he chose to remove the 'U' instead of some other character Could there be some significance behind removing the 3rd letter Since this was supposed to be the 4th generation, maybe he wanted to symbolize the advancement over the 3rd generation, by removing the 3rd letter, or.... was it really to make it a succinct word already found in the dictionary, such as FORTH this industry was already know for making unique conjunctions of letters to make a title, regardless if it was an acroynym or not why could he have not made it, FURTH, to make it stand above the crowd, FURTH, "what's that, cool another programming language" which removes the 2nd letter, but maybe that option didn't have any significance
ROFL yes :)
I mean look at the name PERL after all
who knows....
PERL is an acronym for Practical Extension and Reporting Language.
-Dave
oh yea I saw that, but I read it was an after thought, as in backronym, I guess when everyone kept bugging them so they improvised something