Re: Solutions and Discussion for Perl Quiz of the Week #23
Peter Scott <[email protected]>
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At 12:59 PM 9/10/2004, [email protected] wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:30:14PM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote: > > > > >[1] - P.S.: what does Pr. stand for? Or is it a common title for > both men and > > >women? > > > > I've met it in Norway as an abbreviation for "Person" - i.e. a common > > title as you suggest - but it doesn't seem to be in general usage. > >Pr. eq Programmer aka MJD's way of safely addressing both men + women >on the list when a name is gender neutral. ;-) Funny, I was reading it as "Perler" :-) -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com/ *** New! *** http://www.perlmedic.com/