Re: Solutions and Discussion for Perl Quiz of the Week #23

Peter Scott <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.qotw.discuss
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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" :-)

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Peter Scott
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