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Re: [MacPerl] Shuck, AS, Perl, whatever, Pt 3.

At 15:32 pm on 03.01.97 Bart Lateur <bart.mediamind@tornado.be> said:

>Shuck doesn't use html, but a vaguely comparable file format, known as
>"pod" (Pages Of Description). It is a rather widely accepted format on
>Unix systems.

Mmmm, I think it's 'Plain Old Documentation'?

Ref:   ::MacPerl Ä:pod:perl.pod

>BTW, although I'm not a native English speaker, I think there's
>something wrong with the idea of a corn cob. The word "pod" rather makes
>me think of beans or peas, not corn. Am I wrong?

I'm no farmer-botanist, but I think corn/beans/peas are all in the same
family of plants. Okay, I'm probably wrong. But I think Matthias' intent
was in using the word in the sense of either:

   1. shuck - (v) act of removing the husk (outer covering) of corn
      ...in that the application doesn't have all the feature-bloat
      of common browsers that you mention.

   OR

   2. shuck - (n) a metathesis of the word 'husk', which refers to
      the layer that covers the actual edible corn 'cob'...which
      sorta' rhymes with 'pod', which stands for...  <g>

It's a great application, though. My only complaint (and that's really
too strong a word) is that the Go => Lookup... menu item uses CMD-H,
rather than CMD-F, which I've always thought was the MacOS user interface
standard for doing a Search/Find.

tpg

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