No doubt the Vancouver crowd has already seen this by now, but the rest
of you probably haven't. From *The Globe and Mail*, March 15 2001, page
T5:
"""
Targeting people who work with computers but aren't programmers -- such
as data analysts, software testers, and Web masters -- ActivePerl comes
with telephone support and developer tools such as an "editor." This
feature highlights mistakes made in a user's work -- similar to the
squiggly line that appears under spelling mistakes in Word documents.
"""
A-ha! so *that's* what editors are for!
Greg
PS. article online at
http://news.globetechnology.com/servlet/GAMArticleHTMLTemplate?tf=globetechnology/TGAM/NewsFullStory.html&cf=globetechnology/tech-config-neutral&slug=TWCOME&date=20010315
Apart from the above paragraph, it's pretty low on howlers.
--
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http://starship.python.net/~gward/
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