Richard Levitte <address@hidden> writes:
In message <address@hidden> on Sun, 06 Feb 2011 10:04:35 -0500, Stephen Leake
<address@hidden> said:
stephen_leake> I have a beef about people using the word "standard" in this
way; is
stephen_leake> there an actual ISO or national standard for Perl? Or do you
just mean
stephen_leake> "Perl from some normal place, not customized". We need more
terms for
stephen_leake> this. We have "international standard", "national standard",
"industry
stephen_leake> standard". I don't think Perl is any of those? It's just a
common package.
de-facto standard ;-)
Hmm. That would be for things like Hayes modem commands, or Midi
commands; one company initially dominated, then other companies created
independent implementations of the same command set.
I think there is only one Perl implementation.
So just "Perl" is enough; no need to say "standard".