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 =head1 NAME
 
-perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.11 $, $Date: 1997/03/19 17:23:09 $)
+perlfaq1 - General Questions About Perl ($Revision: 1.12 $, $Date: 1997/04/24 22:43:34 $)
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -50,12 +50,12 @@ users the informal support will more than suffice.  See the answer to
 =head2 Which version of Perl should I use?
 
 You should definitely use version 5.  Version 4 is old, limited, and
-no longer maintained.  Its last patch (4.036) was in 1992.  The last
-production release was 5.003, and the current experimental release for
-those at the bleeding edge (as of 27/03/97) is 5.003_92, considered a beta
-for production release 5.004, which will probably be out by the time
-you read this.  Further references to the Perl language in this document
-refer to the current production release unless otherwise specified.
+no longer maintained; its last patch (4.036) was in 1992.  The most
+recent production release is 5.004.  Further references to the Perl
+language in this document refer to this production release unless
+otherwise specified.  There may be one or more official bug fixes for
+5.004 by the time you read this, and also perhaps some experimental
+versions on the way to the next release.
 
 =head2 What are perl4 and perl5?
 
@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ notice that perl is not itself written in Perl.
 The new native-code compiler for Perl may reduce the limitations given
 in the previous statement to some degree, but understand that Perl
 remains fundamentally a dynamically typed language, and not a
-statically typed one.  You certainly won't be chastised if you don't
+statically typed one.  You certainly won't be chastized if you don't
 trust nuclear-plant or brain-surgery monitoring code to it.  And
 Larry will sleep easier, too -- Wall Street programs not
 withstanding. :-)
@@ -187,14 +187,15 @@ ok, while "awk and Perl" and "Python and perl" do not.
 It doesn't matter.
 
 In "standard terminology" a I<program> has been compiled to physical
-machine code once, and can then be run multiple times, whereas a
+machine code once, and can then be be run multiple times, whereas a
 I<script> must be translated by a program each time it's used.  Perl
 programs, however, are usually neither strictly compiled nor strictly
-interpreted.  They can be compiled to a bytecode form (something of a Perl
-virtual machine) or to completely different languages, like C or assembly
-language.  You can't tell just by looking whether the source is destined
-for a pure interpreter, a parse-tree interpreter, a byte code interpreter,
-or a native-code compiler, so it's hard to give a definitive answer here.
+interpreted.  They can be compiled to a byte code form (something of a
+Perl virtual machine) or to completely different languages, like C or
+assembly language.  You can't tell just by looking whether the source
+is destined for a pure interpreter, a parse-tree interpreter, a byte
+code interpreter, or a native-code compiler, so it's hard to give a
+definitive answer here.
 
 =head2 What is a JAPH?