=head1 NAME
-perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 7997 $)
+perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 9671 $)
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Ponie stands for "Perl On the New Internal Engine", started by Arthur
Bergman from Fotango in 2003, and subsequently run as a project of The
Perl Foundation. It was abandoned in 2006
-U<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.ponie.dev/487> .
+(http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.ponie.dev/487).
Instead of using the current Perl internals, Ponie aimed to create a
new one that would provide a translation path from Perl 5 to Perl 6
of programming experience, an understanding of regular expressions, and
the ability to understand other people's code. If there's something you
need to do, then it's probably already been done, and a working example is
-usually available for free. Don't forget the new perl modules, either.
+usually available for free. Don't forget Perl modules, either.
They're discussed in Part 3 of this FAQ, along with CPAN, which is
discussed in Part 2.
previously used the phrase with many subjects ("Just another x hacker,"),
so to distinguish his JAPH, he started to write them as Perl programs:
- print "Just another Perl hacker,";
+ print "Just another Perl hacker, ";
Note the trailing comma and space, which allows the addition of other
JAxH clauses for his many other interests.
=head1 REVISION
-Revision: $Revision: 7997 $
+Revision: $Revision: 9671 $
-Date: $Date: 2006-11-01 09:29:17 +0100 (mer, 01 nov 2006) $
+Date: $Date: 2007-06-23 18:38:20 +0200 (Sat, 23 Jun 2007) $
See L<perlfaq> for source control details and availability.
=head1 AUTHOR AND COPYRIGHT
-Copyright (c) 1997-2006 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and
+Copyright (c) 1997-2007 Tom Christiansen, Nathan Torkington, and
other authors as noted. All rights reserved.
This documentation is free; you can redistribute it and/or modify it