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diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod index ad7c68a124..5d45c819c5 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq1.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq1.pod @@ -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 chastized if you don't +statically typed one. You certainly won't be chastised 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. :-) @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ 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, +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? |