— Dave Brown dagbrown@LART.ca wrote:
In article 20040119071041.60609.qmail@web41112.mail.yahoo.com,
: Why should we start adopting traits that Perl has? If we did that we
might
: as just well switch to perl at the end of the day…Why should we ignore positive traits that Perl has merely because we
want to be different from Perl?Perl’s POD documentation rules, because it’s pretty much always what
you actually wanted. Compare with Python’s documentation–here, I’ll
show you what happens when you say “pydoc” on a well-known piece of user
software written in Python:
Yup, and Ruby has its own documentation, which is being developed as we
speak…heck I am even more than willing to put some hours in to help with
that.
[…snip something…]
– Thomas Adam
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Thomas Adam thomas_adam16@yahoo.com wrote:
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“ We’ll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish
you for all of them at once when you get better. The
experience will probably kill you. :)”
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