| Russ Allbery 2006-11-25, 7:24 pm |
| Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> On 11/25/06 13:54, Russ Allbery wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
> Does an official-looking top-of-the-man-page backronym that does not
> indicate that it is a backronym *become* canonical, simply by reason
> that it's at the top of the official man page?
Well, the PERL developers don't seem to think so given the arguments on
the PERL mailing lists we've had as much as some of the pointless
arguments we have in Debian, but it doesn't really *matter*. 
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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