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rhygar on Sept 2, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The conversation that led to Ruby being called Rub...

PERL is something you use for scripting inside of a SHELL.

The name comes from the fact that pearls are formed within a creature that has a shell.

Ruby is another precious stone like a pearl.

mnemonicsloth on Sept 2, 2011 | [–]

Pearls are formed in response to constant irritation over a long period of time.

rkowalick on Sept 3, 2011 | | [–]

This is one of the funnier HN comments I have seen in a long time.

Gave me a solid 5 minute chuckle.

wazoox on Sept 3, 2011 | | | [–]

Precisely, after constant irritation with sh, awk and sed programming.

bitops on Sept 3, 2011 | [–]

Aha! Never made that connection. Thanks!

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