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From: Achim Peters on 15 Apr 2008 09:25
Gordon Etly schrieb:
> Jim Cochrane wrote:
>> (I better stop replying now before we get too far sidetracked from
>> perl vs. Perl vs. PERL vs. pERL .......)
>
>
> Just for the record, that was never my plight. But alas it is no use, I
> see, given of all the closed-mindedness abound; what ever happened to
> free thinking? Not one soul had actually addressed the question itself:
> why is it wrong to use PERL if 'perldoc perl' gives it a meaning that
> can be shortened to just "PERL"?

Not only that. With 'perldoc perl' in perl 5.8.2 I indeed do get three
different spellings ("perl", "Perl", _and_ "PERL"):

| PERL(1) perl v5.8.2 (2004-02-16) PERL(1)
|
[...]
|
| perl - [...]
|
| If you're new to Perl, [...]

;-)

Bye
Achim
From: RedGrittyBrick on 15 Apr 2008 12:07
Achim Peters wrote:
> With 'perldoc perl' in perl 5.8.2 I indeed do get three
> different spellings ("perl", "Perl", _and_ "PERL"):
>
> | PERL(1) perl v5.8.2 (2004-02-16) PERL(1)
> |
> [...]
> |
> | perl - [...]
> |
> | If you're new to Perl, [...]
>
> ;-)
>

PYTHON(1)

NAME
python - an interpreted ...
....
Python is an interpreted ...


Every man page on this particular Linux system has the program name in
all-capitals in the page heading, regardless of whether the name is an
abbreviation of any sort. I wouldn't infer anything from that.

--
RGB
From: John W. Krahn on 15 Apr 2008 23:04
Gordon Etly wrote:
> Jürgen Exner wrote:
>> "Gordon Etly" <get(a)bentsys.com> wrote:
>>> What is so wrong with adding to that list,
>>>
>>> "PERL" refers to "Practical Extraction and Report Language" ?
>> Is there a particular reason, why you prefer that expansion over
>> Larry's own suggestion "Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister"?
>
> It's not about what -I- prefer, but what is written in 'perldoc perl'. I
> do know the document that statement comes from, and I understand what
> you are getting at, but in the end it's what is written in 'perldoc
> perl' that I'm looking at.

There are some papers at the supermarket that have articles about the
existence of Bigfoot. It's written down so it must be true. There are
some books that say that the moon landings were faked. It's written
down so it must be true. There are some books that claim that the earth
was created in six days. It's written down so it must be true.


John
--
Perl isn't a toolbox, but a small machine shop where you
can special-order certain sorts of tools at low cost and
in short order. -- Larry Wall
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