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authorPerl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com>1997-04-25 00:00:00 +1200
committerChip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>1997-04-25 00:00:00 +1200
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CORE PORTABILITY Subject: Provide memset() if it's missing From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: global.sym perl.h proto.h util.c Subject: Don't tell GCC that warn(), croak(), and die() are printf-lik From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: proto.h DOCUMENTATION Subject: FAQ udpate (24-apr-97) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:47:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com> Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod private-msgid: 199704242247.QAA07010@prometheus.frii.com OTHER CORE CHANGES Subject: Misc. sv_vcatpvfn() fixes From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk> Files: gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c sv.c toke.c util.c Subject: Enforce order of sprintf() elements From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: sv.c Subject: Guard against long numbers, <<LONG_DELIM, and <long glob> From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: global.sym mg.c perl.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h toke.c util.c Subject: Guard against C<goto> to deeply nested label From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c Subject: Guard against overflow in dup2() emulation From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: util.c Subject: Win32: Guard against long function names From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: win32/win32sck.c Subject: Make mess() always work, by using a non-arena SV From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: perl.c util.c Subject: When copying a format line, take only its string value From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: sv.c Subject: Fix LEAKTEST numbers From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com> Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs handy.h os2/os2.c util.c vms/vms.c win32/win32.c win32/win32sck.c
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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
@@ -190,11 +190,12 @@ In "standard terminology" a I<program> has been compiled to physical
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 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.
+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?