Red Hat 7.2 B2 comments (rant)

[Scott.Prive at storigen.com (Scott Prive)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew Taylor [mailto:drew at drewtaylor.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 5:04 PM
> To: Jerry Feldman; BLU
> Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.2 B2 comments (rant) 
> 
> 
> This is just a nitpick. Perl is most commonly spelled "perl" 
> or "Perl" 
> these days. Although a lot of job postings from 
> HR/headhunters still use 
> the ALL CAPS version, those "in the know" spell it perl. ;-)
> 
> BTW for those of us (young) people who didn't come into 
> contact w/ perl at 
> version 1 or 2, PERL is an acronym. My favorite definition is 
> "Pathologically Ecclectic Rubbish Lister".
> 
> Oh, and feel free to flame me as you wish. :-)

... I'd say anything to change the subject, but no flames at the ready I'm afraid..
Heh.
:-D


> 
> Drew
> 
> At 04:37 PM 8/29/02 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> 
> >Others, like PERL, the Linux kernel, the BSD kernels, are not GNU.
> 
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