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Operating Systems Linux Google Chrome OS Do we need many Operating Systems? Post 302520649 by a sandwhich on Sunday 8th of May 2011 11:15:03 PM
Old 05-09-2011
Yes, yes we do. wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operating_systems
wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
And that doesn't cover many of the smaller experimental os's and the like. It adds variety. It is like asking why are there so many different types of cars or breads. They all drive and taste differently. Also they are tailored to suit their purpose. I know there are several that have spawned from the medical industry.

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String::CamelCase(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    String::CamelCase(3pm)

NAME
String::CamelCase - camelcase, de-camelcase VERSION
Version 0.01 SYNOPSIS
use String::CamelCase qw(camelize decamelize wordsplit); print camelize("some_keyword"); # ==> SomeKeyword print decamelize("SomeKeyword"); # ==> some_keyword print wordsplit("some_keyword"); # ==> (some, keyword) print wordsplit("SomeKeyword"); # ==> (Some, Keyword) EXPORT
This module can export two functions, "camelize" and "decamelize". FUNCTIONS
camelize($under_score) convert from under_score text to CamelCase one. decamelize($CamelCase) convert from CamelCase text to under_score one. wordsplit($str) AUTHOR
YAMASHINA Hio, "<hio at cpan.org>" BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-string-camelcase at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=String-CamelCase>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. SUPPORT
You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc String::CamelCase You can also look for information at: o AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation <http://annocpan.org/dist/String-CamelCase> o CPAN Ratings <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/String-CamelCase> o RT: CPAN's request tracker <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=String-CamelCase> o Search CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/dist/String-CamelCase> SEE ALSO
CamelCase(en.wikipedia.org) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase> CamelCase(ja.wikipedia.org) <http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9> COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright 2006 YAMASHINA Hio, all rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.1 2009-12-27 String::CamelCase(3pm)
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