Re: perl should be improved and perl6

John Bokma wrote:
"Gordon Etly" <get@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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?

IMO a good Perl programmer knows the difference between Perl and perl,
and knows when to use which one.


There you go again, completely ignoring what 'man perl' and 'perldoc
perl' say:

I would think a good programmer would also have read Perl's own
documentation, which validates the usage of Perl as an acronym:

$ perldoc perl | head -n 10
PERL(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation PERL(1)


NAME
perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^


Even http://perldoc.perl.org/perl.html says:
"perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language"

--
G.Etly


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