Re: Bug in Perl man page
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On 11/25/06 17:07, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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
That's really interesting/confusing.
According to http://history.perl.org/PerlTimeline.html the v1.000
man page also gives the acronym
NAME
perl | Practical Extraction and Report Language
So, anyone who does The Right Thing and goes to Canon can only
presume that this is what perl means.
> arguments we have in Debian, but it doesn't really *matter*. :)
>
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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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