Re: perl should be improved and perl6

Abigail wrote:
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Gordon Etly (get@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on VCCCXXXIII September MCMXCIII
in <URL:news:65t6g3F2huv6jU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

This last quote is contradicted by the main Perl document, that
gives the "NAME" of the language as:

"perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language"

Which IS an acronym.

No, it's not.

I'm sorry, but you are mistaken. (Please see below.)

The first line of a manual page is the name of the binary (not the
language, the binary), followed by a one line description.

Take for instance "man man":

man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals

Would you claim, "man" is an acronym of "an interface to the on-line
reference manuals"? Of course not.


There is a huge difference here. It is not the same as,

"perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language",

which is written defining each letter in the word "perl", which is what
an acronym is. And notice how the NAME line in most man entries are
lowercase (except for proper nouns)?


Or at the very least allows one to write
"perl" or "PERL" to abbreviate that.

Well, if you want to abbreviate a one line description

Ok, notice how the first letter of each word in the name line for 'man
perl' is capitalized, and how each of the capitalized letters
corresponds to a letter in the word "perl"? This is a common way for
defining an acronym. There really isn't anymore to it.

--
G.Etly


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