threads::shared::queue and semaphore become Thread::Semaphore

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / pod / perlfaq1.pod

diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod
index 78720e7..5ca94c9 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlfaq1.pod
+++ b/pod/perlfaq1.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.5 $, $Date: 2002/01/27 20:22:52 $)
+perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.8 $, $Date: 2002/04/07 18:46:13 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -36,11 +36,11 @@ In particular, the core development team (known as the Perl Porters)
 are a rag-tag band of highly altruistic individuals committed to
 producing better software for free than you could hope to purchase for
 money.  You may snoop on pending developments via the archives at
-http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/ 
-and http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/ 
+http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/
+and http://archive.develooper.com/perl5-porters@perl.org/
 or the news gateway nntp://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl5.porters or
 its web interface at http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters ,
-or read the faq at http://perlhacker.org/p5p-faq,
+or read the faq at http://perlhacker.org/p5p-faq ,
 or you can subscribe to the mailing list by sending
 perl5-porters-request@perl.org a subscription request
 (an empty message with no subject is fine).
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ i.e. the current interpreter.  Hence Tom's quip that "Nothing but perl
 can parse Perl."  You may or may not choose to follow this usage.  For
 example, parallelism means "awk and perl" and "Python and Perl" look
 OK, while "awk and Perl" and "Python and perl" do not.  But never
-write "PERL", because perl isn't really an acronym, apocryphal
+write "PERL", because perl is not an acronym, apocryphal
 folklore and post-facto expansions notwithstanding.
 
 =head2 Is it a Perl program or a Perl script?
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ http://www.cpan.org/misc/japh .
 Over a hundred quips by Larry, from postings of his or source code,
 can be found at http://www.cpan.org/misc/lwall-quotes.txt.gz .
 
-=head2 How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version 5/5.005/Perl instead of some other language?
+=head2 How can I convince my sysadmin/supervisor/employees to use version 5/5.6.1/Perl instead of some other language?
 
 If your manager or employees are wary of unsupported software, or
 software which doesn't officially ship with your operating system, you
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ for any given task.  Also mention that the difference between version
 (Well, OK, maybe it's not quite that distinct, but you get the idea.)
 If you want support and a reasonable guarantee that what you're
 developing will continue to work in the future, then you have to run
-the supported version.  As of April 2001 that probably means
+the supported version.  As of January 2002 that probably means
 running either of the releases 5.6.1 (released in April 2001) or
 5.005_03 (released in March 1999), although 5.004_05 isn't that bad
 if you B<absolutely> need such an old version (released in April 1999)