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> From: Rob Dixon [mailto:rob.dixon@gmx.com] > On 06/02/2013 12:57, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I agree, but I suspect there is also value in the perl (hah!) core > > following its own recommendations as closely as possible. > > The Linux Journal has an interview with Larry, who says this > > In Perl's case, we realized about the time of Perl 4 that it was > useful to distinguish between perl the program and Perl the > language. If you find a first edition of the Camel Book, > you'll see that the title was Programming perl, with a small p. > Nowadays, the title is Programming Perl. English language has habit of title-casing book names, my native language grammatic is different, hence different habits. > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3394 according to this article, it appears that before perl4 perl was "perl" and not "Perl"... So this is how the language was called before The-Great-Rename event! :) > > Vadim is entitled to mis-spell anything he likes, but it doesn't make > it correct! its not a mis-spell, its just following different rules. TIMTOWTDI Not a big deal question anywayThread Previous | Thread Next