Re: perl should be improved and perl6

David Formosa (aka ? the Platypus) wrote:
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 09:21:36 -0700, Gordon Etly <get@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

[...]

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.

Its also what a backronym is as well.

Either way, the official documentation defines a meaning for each letter
in "perl", and that is the point.

[...]

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.

So emacs is an acronym for Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping.

No, the man page for "emacs" defines it as "emacs - GNU project Emacs",
while for perl (either via man or perldoc) defines it as "perl -
Practical Extraction and Report Language". The latter defines a meaning
for each letter, the former does not.

--
G.Etly


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