Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 12:54:38 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk> Cc: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>, Chern Lee <chern@meow.osd.bsdi.com>, mi@aldan.algebra.com, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/explaining-bsd article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/new-users article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe article.sgml doc/en_US.ISO Message-ID: <20010718125438.M29634@clan.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20010718121920.B22510@cartman.techsupport.co.uk>; from ceri@techsupport.co.uk on Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:19:20PM %2B0100 References: <200107180137.f6I1bY040391@misha.privatelabs.com> <Pine.BSF.4.31.0107171845250.93370-100000@meow.osd.bsdi.com> <20010718081537.F29634@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20010718121920.B22510@cartman.techsupport.co.uk>
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 12:19:20PM +0100, Ceri wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 08:15:37AM +0100, Nik Clayton said:
> > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:51:16PM -0700, Chern Lee wrote:
> > >
> > > Tcl is an acronym, but it is commonly referred to as Tcl.
> > >
> > > Also, Tcl slightly outnumbered TCL in the handbook.
> >
> > Tcl is not the only language to do this of course -- Perl is another.
>
> I beg to differ.
> Check the first result from `perldoc -q "what's the difference"`
We're in violent agreement. Although it's an acronym, it's not spelt
with all-caps.
% perldoc perl
NAME
perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
N
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FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/
FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/
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