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Author Bug in Perl man page (was Re: Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp)
Ron Johnson

2006-11-25, 1:16 pm

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On 11/25/06 00:46, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 13:12 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip][vbcol=seagreen]
> Ron, please stop that urban legend. PERL is PERL not P.E.R.L as you say.
>
> I have been corrected for saying that, by more than one PERL Monk, also
> by Mr. Wall.
>
> PERL is Perl. It has no meaning other than Perl.


I guess I'd better file a bug against the PERL package then.

PERL(1) PERL Programmers Reference Guide PERL(1)

NAME
perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language

SYNOPSIS
perl [ -sTtuUWX ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ]
[snip]
perl v5.8.8 2006-08-06 PERL(1)
Manual page perl(1) line 377/430 (END)

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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