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



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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:
>>
>> On 11/24/06 11:54, Jon Dowland wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:25:27AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>>> On 11/24/06 06:06, Jon Dowland wrote:
[snip]
> 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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