Re: perl should be improved and perl6

John Bokma wrote:
"V.Ronans" <v_r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dr.Ruud wrote:
jm schreef:

perl [...] is poorly typed

By you? (Did you mean Perl by the way?)

Honestly, you know full well he was talking about the programming
language that pertains to this here news group, so feign ignorance? I
mean why is this even such an issue? Other places where people talk
about programming languages don't seem to care if it's all caps,

There are already plenty of people who think PERL is an acronym (it's
not), so "we" like to avoid PERL.

Moreover, Perl is the programming language, and perl is the
executable, hence there is a good reason to be case sensitive. Hence,
perl [...] is poorly typed seems to refer to the executable, hence
Dr. Ruud's question.

As someone else pointed out, in many other groups centered around a
particular programming language, no one pays this kind of attention of
people like your self seem to. Second, why is it people like yourself
can never give a straight answer as to why it is of such high
importance? If someone is a good programmer with the Perl language, does
it really make a difference how they spell it as long as they know what
they are doing? I mean you have people like Abigail who use their own
quote characters, Uri who can't use a bloody shift key, etc, and you're
worried about how some random bloke cases the word/term Perl?

--
G.Etly


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