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From: brian d foy on 4 May 2008 16:41
In article
<43a75974-ec4c-41d3-8912-4a8b873190e3(a)u12g2000prd.googlegroups.com>,
Ben Bullock <benkasminbullock(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> On May 4, 1:59 pm, Sherman Pendley <spamt...(a)dot-app.org> wrote:
> > Ben Bullock <benkasminbull...(a)gmail.com> writes:
> > > On Sat, 03 May 2008 12:03:02 -0700, PerlFAQ Server wrote:
> >
> > >> 3.23: Can I write useful Perl programs on the command line?
> >
> > > Has anybody ever, even once, asked this question, or even something
> > > similar to it? I just can't imagine anybody asking that kind of question.
> >
> > That's the ever-lasting mystery of FAQs - if they do their job, the Qs are
> > no longer so F any more. :-)
>
> I'm pretty sure that Q has never been F let alone A.

I don't know. Several people have asked me about it in Perl classes I
teach. They are usually sysadmins trying to make things that were shell
or awk or sed into Perl.

It's certainly not a representative sample, but the FAQ will stay in
perlfaq. It's not hurting anyone there. :)
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