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It says Larry Wall isn't working on Perl anymore. When did that happen? It looks like the Perl6 thing was announced in 2000 and around 2010 Larry Wall deleted the Perl page from his blog (it's been a 404 link ever since)

- https://web.archive.org/web/20100214124540/http://www.wall.o...

- http://www.wall.org/~larry/perl.html

That butterfly was the worst. Perl would have been better served having an animal like the honeybadger as its logo.

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Since "backronyms" are a thing, I think they should adopt the camel as the logo, given that's what I see in my head when I think of perl: https://learning.oreilly.com/library/cover/0596000278/250w/

Not as simple as you think: http://neilb.org/2020/12/04/perl-and-camels.html

> That butterfly was the worst.

Agree completely. Larry Wall is pretty brilliant, but he shouldn't be doing graphics design.

Actually, I tend to dislike cutsey-poo cartoon icons, in general. If you want to pick an animal totem, there are plenty of public domain photos of actual animals courtesy of the NSF and such...

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