From bc9665a0a3121c5118b17d2b75bd707505a416c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: brian d foy Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:05:13 -0500 Subject: The Perl Review isn't really a magazine anymore --- pod/perlfaq2.pod | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perlfaq2.pod b/pod/perlfaq2.pod index 9a716aeea1..6ce3474848 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq2.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq2.pod @@ -228,17 +228,11 @@ There are many good books on Perl. See the L documentation or =head2 Which magazines have Perl content? -I ( http://www.theperlreview.com ) focuses on Perl -almost completely (although it sometimes sneaks in an article about -another language). There's also I<$foo Magazin>, a german magazine -dedicated to Perl, at ( http://www.foo-magazin.de ). - The I is a German-speaking magazine for Perl beginners (see http://perl-zeitung.at.tf ). -Magazines that frequently carry quality articles on Perl include I ( http://www.theperlreview.com ), I ( -http://www.unixreview.com/ ), I ( +Magazines that frequently carry quality articles on Perl include +I ( http://www.unixreview.com/ ), I ( http://www.linuxmagazine.com/ ), and Usenix's newsletter/magazine to its members, I ( http://www.usenix.org/ ). -- cgit v1.2.1 From 47c7c0687720145cb826d025839a4dc646597dfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: brian d foy Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:12:51 -0500 Subject: Re-mention $foo Magazin in perlfaq2 --- pod/perlfaq2.pod | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perlfaq2.pod b/pod/perlfaq2.pod index 6ce3474848..ef2b48ab38 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq2.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq2.pod @@ -228,8 +228,10 @@ There are many good books on Perl. See the L documentation or =head2 Which magazines have Perl content? -The I is a German-speaking magazine for Perl beginners -(see http://perl-zeitung.at.tf ). +There's also I<$foo Magazin>, a German magazine dedicated to Perl, at +( http://www.foo-magazin.de ). The I is another +German-speaking magazine for Perl beginners (see +http://perl-zeitung.at.tf ). Magazines that frequently carry quality articles on Perl include I ( http://www.unixreview.com/ ), I ( -- cgit v1.2.1 From 8387a5cb8b749e07290ed553d261bb3ea208327e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: brian d foy Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 08:17:42 -0500 Subject: Remove FAQ about PONIE --- pod/perlfaq.pod | 4 ---- pod/perlfaq1.pod | 15 --------------- 2 files changed, 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perlfaq.pod b/pod/perlfaq.pod index 614ff564a9..9ca88c8fe0 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq.pod @@ -129,10 +129,6 @@ What are Perl 4, Perl 5, or Perl 6? =item * -What was Ponie? - -=item * - What is Perl 6? =item * diff --git a/pod/perlfaq1.pod b/pod/perlfaq1.pod index ba70a82260..bea50a059e 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq1.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq1.pod @@ -153,21 +153,6 @@ http://rakudo.org ). See L for a history of Perl revisions. -=head2 What was Ponie? - -(contributed by brian d foy) - -Ponie stands for "Perl On the New Internal Engine", started by Arthur -Bergman from Fotango in 2003, and subsequently run as a project of The -Perl Foundation. It was abandoned in 2006 -( http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.ponie.dev/487 ). - -Instead of using the current Perl internals, Ponie aimed to create a -new one that would provide a translation path from Perl 5 to Perl 6 -(or anything else that targets Parrot, actually). You would have been -able to just keep using Perl 5 with Parrot, the virtual machine which -will compile and run Perl 6 bytecode. - =head2 What is Perl 6? At The Second O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention, Larry Wall -- cgit v1.2.1 From 3fa40d7d3ae265bac7b7757b80d3f743e3f725f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: brian d foy Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:21:46 -0500 Subject: perlfaq9: Sys::Hostname is in core since 5.0 --- pod/perlfaq9.pod | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perlfaq9.pod b/pod/perlfaq9.pod index c6fd929889..d211e96c8a 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq9.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq9.pod @@ -621,16 +621,16 @@ gethostbyname, Socket, Net::Domain, Sys::Hostname> (contributed by brian d foy) -The C module, which is part of the standard distribution starting -in perl5.7.3, can get you the fully qualified domain name (FQDN), the host +The C module, which is part of the Standard Library starting +in Perl 5.7.3, can get you the fully qualified domain name (FQDN), the host name, or the domain name. use Net::Domain qw(hostname hostfqdn hostdomain); my $host = hostfqdn(); -The C module, included in the standard distribution since -perl5.6, can also get the hostname. +The C module, part of the Standard Library, can also get the +hostname: use Sys::Hostname; -- cgit v1.2.1