Re^2: Why do nodes with minimal value get upvoted most?

The second edition Camel from which most of the core of perldoc is descended came out in 1996.

That sounds like most of the core docs were copied from the Camel. That's not true. First of all, the authors of the various editions of the Camel also wrote large portions of the documentation. And a lot of what's in the Camel, be it the Camel II and the Camel III, appeared in the docs first.

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Re^3: Why do nodes with minimal value get upvoted most? by Fletch (Bishop) on Dec 23, 2004 at 16:59 UTC
feh Yes Tom Christensen was largely responsible for both huge chunks of the Perl 5 perldoc as well as the various Camels. Much of what got expanded upon and written for the 2nd edition Camel got merged back into the perldoc after its publication (and has subsequently been further honed and improved by countless others). I was using the copyright dates of the two reference tomes five years apart to clarify what I meant by relative immaturity, not to produce further quibbles about the genealogy of perldoc.	[reply]

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Re^3: Why do nodes with minimal value get upvoted most?
by Fletch (Bishop) on Dec 23, 2004 at 16:59 UTC

*feh*

Yes Tom Christensen was largely responsible for both huge chunks of the Perl 5 perldoc as well as the various Camels. Much of what got expanded upon and written for the 2nd edition Camel got merged back into the perldoc after its publication (and has subsequently been further honed and improved by countless others). I was using the copyright dates of the two reference tomes five years apart to clarify what I meant by relative immaturity, not to produce further quibbles about the genealogy of perldoc.

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