Re: [MacPerl-Scribes] Re: Using MacPerl for CGI Programming

[Terje Bless <link@tss.no>]

On 19.03.00 at 09:52, Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com> wrote:

>Unlike *nix, the Macintosh OS can only ...

What is this "*nix" y'all keep talking about?

There was a running joke a few years back about having to acknowledge
AT&T's trademark on the "UNIX" brand whenever UNIX was mentioned. This was
because AT&T sued clone manufacturers that came too close to trademark
infringement and a way to express contempt for the practice.

Either spell out UNIX ("[TM]" optional) or use a term such as "canonical
perl", "original perl" or whatever makes sense. Given that what you are
refering to is actually "perl" (as opposed to a random implementation of
"Perl" such as ActiveState Perl or MacPerl), one would think that just
plain "perl" would suffice. Alternately, one could refer to "UNIX perl",
"UNIX Perl", "perl under UNIX", "perl on UNIX", or any number of such
terms.


>From the Jargon File 4.2.0:

# UN*X n.
#
# Used to refer to the Unix operating system (a trademark of AT&T) in
# writing, but avoiding the need for the ugly (TM) typography. Also used
# to refer to any or all varieties of Unixoid operating systems.
# Ironically, lawyers now say that the requirement for the trademark
# postfix has no legal force, but the asterisk usage is entrenched anyhow.
# It has been suggested that there may be a psychological connection to
# practice in certain religions (especially Judaism) in which the name of
# the deity is never written out in full, e.g., 'YHWH' or 'G-d' is used.
# See also glob.

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