Re: A small grammatical correction in perlfaq1
[email protected] (brian d foy) Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:26:46 -0700
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[[ This message was both posted and mailed: see the "To," "Cc," and "Newsgroups" headers for details. ]] In article <[email protected]>, Nikhil Prabhakar <[email protected]> wrote: > In answer to ``Who supports Perl? Who develops it? Why is it > free?'' in perlfaq1 of Perl 5.8.8, one line says ``Perl is not > produced nor maintained by the Free Software Foundation.''. Shouldn't > it be ``Perl is neither produced nor maintained by the Free Software > Foundation.''? That is, ``not'' should be substituted by ``neither'' > to be grammatically correct. Although the neither-nor combination is most common, not-nor is not incorrect.