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On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Alex Queiroz <asandroq@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:49 PM, joao lobato <btnfdp.lobato@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Even if non-portuguese speakers don't recognize it a word, the fact
> that it has vowels should be a hint no? I mean, you wouldn't think
> that SQL is anything but an acronym, but Java, Perl, Python... is it
> common to capitalize those?
>

PERL is an acronym.

Yes, indeed it is.

While we're being pedantic for fun I'd also like to point out that Lua has no regexes, it's Pattern Matching.