Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 06:49:28 +0200 From: "Marc Silver" <marcs@draenor.org> To: "Eitan Adler" <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is perl? Message-ID: <d8db8de30811022049r6fc96672n6f08c7aca2858194@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <490DE377.4040005@gmail.com>
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Hi there, I may be wrong, but I always assumed that these man pages were part of the Perl package themselves and as such, not maintained by FreeBSD-doc. That said, since Perl has a reputation for performing any single task in many different ways, it seems quite fitting that there is no one explanation. :) Cheers, Marc On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Eitan Adler <eitanadlerlist@gmail.com>wrote: > -----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----- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.home | help
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