From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 2 17:29:32 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AA34106568A for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 17:29:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CEA98FC1A for ; Sun, 2 Nov 2008 17:29:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eitanadlerlist@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id n4so1084299wag.27 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:29:31 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:to:subject:x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:from; bh=JjfzbCesL3MwfeagNb5wsmFXCC1kdJE5MJUE7i6jJOg=; b=u7aE2UXDLlHVTLiNTwh5B6OSKrF3Dmcp7eg1XX9rJrzboQVyrWG5x+ce0TxqD0xi1q MafQy6fdPO9PbvhvKieQ3U+HazkDJHk9Pjqzs7aZd9YDZ1f4qLkmacWmioCLiJ6U1QF0 4lvhsTIohniQ8J/12BxcO78Zs+R1CO1e4khuo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :x-enigmail-version:openpgp:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :from; b=oAR7EGW/XIA1ltt/iCnIL0ee1ueiV2Hccikmc9SxnPw416ydTOnwVjP7CMsW2rth2t jljjMf3Aa9YH0O93tjFY6P9FqW9V6cYbF/BW6z2C60clkFB8FyneNw337uwF7xFpTGr5 KkYVBILypCynZ5BbRk6dRbzLOwuv7V/EZs1H4= Received: by 10.114.74.18 with SMTP id w18mr12033615waa.125.1225646971652; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:29:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.101? (ool-182d26f3.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.38.243]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m29sm10338601poh.1.2008.11.02.09.29.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:29:30 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <490DE377.4040005@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:29:27 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; ) Gecko Thunderbird Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 OpenPGP: id=E9C2CCD1; url=pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eitan Adler Subject: What is perl? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:29:32 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At the moment man perl man perlfaq1 man perlintro lang/perl5/pkg-descr Each give a different answer to the question "what is perl?". I think the documentation should be consistent. Can we come up with "one definition to rule them all"? - -- GNU Key fingerptrint: 2E13 BC16 5F54 0FBD 62ED 42B6 B65F 24AB E9C2 CCD1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkkN43cACgkQtl8kq+nCzNFTUwCfej7Nxyk5SGXs0GQHjKT+++kP gtoAnjlptMTo6EcpjKbIF9yKw0yTVKff =bodO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----