From: David Golden <dagolden@cpan.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:04:54 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Revised opening line of perl man page
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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.
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diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod
index f30dd92..edeb750 100644
--- 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