From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2008-08-06T07:01:19+09:00
Subject: Re: perl and the culture of libraries

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Mark Thomas <ruby@thomaszone.com> wrote:
>
>> There is a (hair brained) reason why I chose the name.  It is to keep
>> Prawn out of the PDF namespace until it is ready to replace the
>> current defacto standard PDF::Writer library.
>
> hee hee, I didn't mean to snipe at your name in particular, it's just
> the first example that came to mind (I had just looked at your latest
> release). Nice work, by the way.

No worries, that question came up a few times in the last couple days
and I felt like I needed to retrofit an answer to it that sounded
good.  Truly I just like the word.  :)

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