Bonkers

asmith9983@gmail.com asmith9983 at gmail.com
Mon May 14 17:18:50 BST 2007


Hi
Isn't that the basis of the Agile programming methodolog ?  Treat the first 
version as the prototype to become fully acquainted with the problem, then 
build the second version as the real version.

-- 
Andrew

On Mon, 14 May 2007, David Cantrell wrote:

> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 04:32:16PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:
>
>> Because the C is documented, and even has a handy Book. Last time I
>> looked most the  Perl GTK docs referred you to the C docs.
>
> Ahh, just like the docs for POSIX.pm.  strftime, for example, has its
> arguments listed, with the description "consult your system's strftime()
> manpage for details about these and the other arguments.".
>
> This is particularly irritating when you consider that perlfunc has very
> complete docs for sprintf().  Yay consistency.
>
> Yes, I know, I could submit a doc-patch.
>
>> Doing it in C first made doing it with Perl much easier though.
>
> Duh.  The second time is *always* easier.
>
>


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