Re: Back to the original topic

2006-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/06 18:24, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What matters is that Perl started out as > >> Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbi- >> trary text files, extracting information

Re: Back to the original topic

2006-11-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What matters is that Perl started out as > Perl is a interpreted language optimized for scanning arbi- > trary text files, extracting information from those text > files, and printing reports based on that information. It's > als

Back to the original topic (was Re: Bug in Perl man page)

2006-11-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/25/06 17:07, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 actual