Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Do be do be do. Message-ID: <4807@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> Date: 7 Feb 91 20:19:04 GMT References: <1991Feb4.012916.7944@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> <1991Feb04.015138.28575@convex.com> <4796@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <11330@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Sender: news@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Lines: 23 In-reply-to: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) >>>>> In message <11330@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) (LW) writes: LW> In some sense, yes. But the only section of the man page that should LW> actually be trusted to be more authoritative is the Errata and Addenda LW> section. The man page will always remain more cryptic than the book, but LW> the man page should of course be fixed when it's inaccurate. Yes, that sounds good. LW> : Hmmm... I'm getting tired of writing "``page''" rather than "page". LW> If we had to quote all of our metaphors, we'd be in sad shape. Man pages LW> departed from being single sheets of paper long ago. They're only slightly LW> more closely related than pages of memory. That page of history in which LW> we had to quote 'man "page"' is past. I forgot the :=). It is just that it is so much bigger than the others I'm used to. By the way, is there a commonly used man page that is bigger than perl's? -- Piet van Oostrum