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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: (f)flush?
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Date: 30 Jul 90 22:19:26 GMT
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Reply-To: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Organization: VU Dept. of Computer Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Is (f)flush such a bad idea that it isn't to be included in `libperl.a'?
Trivial to write, of course, but shouldn't it be STDPerl?  (I don't want
immediate writes all the time, you know...)

Trivia question: why wasn't the language called `Pearl'?  In the explanation
of the acronym the `a' is even there!

% webster perl
No definition  for 'perl'.  Maybe you mean:
  1. peal                   2. pearl                  3. peel                  
  4. per                    5. per-                   6. peri                  
  7. peril                  8. perk                   9. pert                  
 10. purl      

Yeah, `peril' I guess.  :-)
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