Re: A small grammatical correction in perlfaq1

[email protected] (brian d foy) Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:26:46 -0700
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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.