Perl

Etymology
A of its original name, a reference to Matthew 13:46. A common explanation is “Practical Extraction and Reporting Language”.

Proper noun

 * 1)  A family of high-level programming languages, particularly used for text processing.

Etymology
From, used by for the type used in his miniature editions of , , and the  in the 1620s.

Noun

 * 1)  pearl: the small size of type standardized as 5 points.

Noun

 * 1) pearl