On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 07:42:20AM -0800, Brad Beveridge wrote:
> > Well, I got started.  I'm calling my module SLIMPL: Superior Lisp
> > Interaction Mode for Perl.  So far I have 75 lines of a Perl module
> > that doesn't do much more than open a socket to Swank.  WooHoo.  ;)
<snip>
> > -- Larry
> 
> Fantastic!  I spent the weekend looking at Slime & Swank code, and
> reading "Perl in 20 Pages".  For the next few days I'm going to be
> doing the same - mostly learning Perl.

I like and use test driven development.  You might like to peruse
here[1] for an intro to TDD and so you can see why I code the way I
do, and perhaps even the book _Perl Testing_ (or the Perl modules
Test::Simple[2] and Test::More[3]).

> From Friday I am headed to Canada for 10 days & don't plan to touch
> a computer the whole time :)

WooHoo!  Have a good time!

> If I can't manage to contribute code right away, I will volunteer to
> be #1 cheerleader & tester.

:)  Thanks for that.  If you've followed the glacial progress of my
VILisp module, you've probably gathered that I have little time for
external projects, and I usually only enhanced VILisp when I had time
for doing Lisp, or got the occasional bug report, and even then
sometimes it took a while.  So anyway, for me, a cheerleader would
make an excellent partner!  :)

-- Larry

[1] http://www.testdriven.com/modules/xoopsfaq/ 
[2] http://search.cpan.org/~gravalo/Net-FileShare-0.18/Test/Simple.pm
[3] http://search.cpan.org/~mhx/Convert-Binary-C-0.62/support/Test/More.pm

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