Re: Perldoc Project

2003-07-27 Thread Piers Cawley
Adam Turoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:55:42AM -0600, Nick Pinckernell wrote: >> I agree with the first three items right out of >> http://dev.perl.org/rfc/5.pod >> 1. IT'S NOT INTUITIVE > > "Intuitive" is one of those meaningless buzzwords like "maintainable". >

Re: Perldoc Project

2003-07-24 Thread Adam Turoff
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:55:42AM -0600, Nick Pinckernell wrote: > I agree with the first three items right out of > http://dev.perl.org/rfc/5.pod > 1. IT'S NOT INTUITIVE "Intuitive" is one of those meaningless buzzwords like "maintainable". It sounds good, but it's meaningless. See MJD's ta

Re: Perldoc Project

2003-07-24 Thread Sean M. Burke
At 10:55 AM 2003-07-24 -0600, Nick Pinckernell wrote, of Pod: 1. IT'S NOT INTUITIVE IT ISN'T? You can take normal English sentences alternating with codeblocks, put "=pod" before and =cut after, and it's got a 99% chance of being good as Pod. That's pretty intuitive, for an intuitively intuit

Re: Perldoc Project

2003-07-24 Thread Sean M. Burke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Pinckernell) wrote on Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:49:40 -0600: I have just recently taken over the sourceforge project perldoc. However, currently, there is not much there. It was started about a year ago, and no work was ever done on the idea by the previous project owner. Th