Revised opening line of perl man page

This patch was reviewed with Larry Wall via IRC.  His stipulation was
that both historical glossses be preserved to humorous effect.

diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod
index f30dd92..edeb750 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perl.pod
+++ b/pod/perl.pod
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 =head1 NAME
 
-perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
+perl - The Perl language interpreter
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
@@ -247,6 +247,9 @@ often point out exactly where the trouble is.
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
+Perl officially stands for Practical Extraction and Report Language,
+except when it doesn't.
+
 Perl is a language optimized for scanning arbitrary
 text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing
 reports based on that information.  It's also a good language for many