Re: Bug in Perl man page
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:
> On 11/25/06 13:54, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> It's a back-formation, as is "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister"
>> (later in the man page). The language is actually named after "Pearl"
>> but since there was already a language named that, Larry Wall dropped
>> the "a". Since then, a few acronyms were made up to fit the letters.
> 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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