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On 11/25/06 23:02, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Ron Johnson said:
>> Does an official-looking top-of-the-man-page backronym that does not
>> indicate that it is a backronym *become* canonical, simply by reason
>> that it's at the
This one time, at band camp, Ron Johnson said:
> Does an official-looking top-of-the-man-page backronym that does not
> indicate that it is a backronym *become* canonical, simply by reason
> that it's at the top of the official man page?
Does a joke become truth just because people don't know it's
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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
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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
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 actually named after "Pearl"
>> but since there was already a language named that, Larry Wall dropp
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On 11/25/06 13:54, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> On 11/25/06 00:46, Greg Folkert wrote:
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>>> Ron, please stop that urban legend. Perl is Perl not P.E.R.L as you
>>> say.
>
>>> I have been corrected for saying that,
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 11/25/06 00:46, Greg Folkert wrote:
>> Ron, please stop that urban legend. Perl is Perl not P.E.R.L as you
>> say.
>> I have been corrected for saying that, by more than one Perl Monk, also
>> by Mr. Wall.
>> Perl is Perl. It has no meaning other than
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On 11/25/06 00:46, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 13:12 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
>>
>> On 11/24/06 11:54, Jon Dowland wrote:
>>> On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 08:25:27AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 11/24/06 06:06, Jon Dowland wrote:
[snip
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