On Tuesday 30 Mar 2010 20:02:54 Shawn H Corey wrote: > On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:20:02 +0200 > > chew23 <johnvoo...@hotmail.it> wrote: > > > I hope you're going to like Perl 5 and will use it for years to > > > come. [P6] Just a note - it's either "Perl" or "perl" but never > > > "PERL": > > > > > > http://perl.org.il/misc.html#pl_vs_pl > > > > I apologize to the list, but I was not aware of this. > > Few non-Perl mongers are. (It's just that some mongers get really > antsy if you get it wrong.) >
Well, you can blame the ghosts of the ancient Greek for thinking that introducing two parallel sets of letters - the uppercase and the lowercase ones was a good idea. Some alphabets such as the Hebrew Alphabet or the Arabic Alphabet only have one set of letters, and they work fine. That put aside, I still try to write in proper-case English and prefer to read properly- capitalised English text, because I find it easier. > FYI: Perl is used for the language and anything related to it. perl > is the name of the program that runs Perl scripts. If in doubt, use > Perl. My link explained that. > > Also, Perl mongers are advocates for Perl. See http://www.pm.org/ to > find mongers near you. Another thing - the word "monger". Compare: 1. Fish monger. 2. Perl monger. 3. Hate monger. In Hebrew 1 would be "Mokher", 2 would be "Shocher" and 3 would be "Mecharcher". If we called ourselves "Mokhrey HaPerl" or "Mecharcherey HaPerl" people will get the wrong idea. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Stop Using MSIE - http://www.shlomifish.org/no-ie/ Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
