Oxford English Dictionary, s.v. “Pearl”, 2.b. (Application for the flower), “Pearl”, 2.d. (Applications of the flower)” If

a good or wise saying is a valuable or precious thing, a virtuous or highly sought after person, a fine example or type; a significant or wise saying may not be a valuable or valuable thing without its value as a whole. How has the pearl of wisdom been told?

What is the significance of this passage of time?

It’s interesting to note the implications here: it’s a pearl, rather than a gem – this has all the implications of pearl formation: a beautiful thing coming from a small, irritating seed, which has had to grow over time to become valuable. Whether these are actually part of the etymology of the phrase is unknown to me, but I find this interesting.

In this context, the word pearl refers to an official term, i.e. pearl. If the “Educational Pearl” is amongst others hints that it is one of many. “Educational Pearl” merely the title of a series of which this publication is a part. (cf. scheme2006, list of publications) It is

possible that there is some meaning intended for the use of “pearl” to describe these documents, but it seems that the meaning would be hidden from the casual browser of any one of these publications. Maybe it has some meaning to the faculty and students at this institution.

I just found this question on google and it looks like none of the answers here tell the full story. Please help.

The use of the word “pearl” here is a take on a type of paper in the Functional Programming community called “Functional Pearl”, a concept that was started in the Journal of Functional Programming and was based on the original programing pearls series in the Communications of the ACM published. In that original series the word Pearl was chosen to reflect that these “Pearls” were solutions that had been polished over time into particularly elegant programming solutions (as Joe McMahon conjectured). The series programming pearls was also published in books.

As described here and also on the ICFP website, a Functional Pearl should be elegant, fun and instructive.

This meme is often used with a twist (mostly in the programming language community). Here they have a “Educational Pearl”, I’ve seen a “Declarative Pearl” and a “Field Pearl”. Is this “functional pearl” on the design side, but has a different style?

What is a pearl of wisdom?” In this case, they are talking about an effective method of teaching computer science.

What is the Perl programming language? What is the meaning of this?

It’s interesting to note the implications here: it’s a pearl, rather than a gem – this has all the implications of pearl formation: a beautiful thing coming from a small, irritating seed, which has had to grow over time to become valuable. Whether these are actually part of the etymology of the phrase is unknown to me, but I find this interesting.

It’s interesting to note the implications here: it’s a pearl, rather than a gem – this has all the implications of pearl formation: a beautiful thing coming from a small, irritating seed, which has had to grow over time to become valuable. Whether these are actually part of the etymology of the phrase is unknown to me, but I find this interesting.

What is a pearl of wisdom?” In this case, they are talking about an effective method of teaching computer science.

What is the Perl programming language? What is the meaning of this?