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From:
David J. Goehrig
Date:
June 18, 2002 10:00
Subject:
Re: Perl5 humor
Message ID:
20020617235933.GA14928@sdlperl.org

Hey stop bad mouthing macros :)

5's problems with macros is not that there are so many of them, but that documentation 
and usage guidelines are hard to come by.  The lesson, for Parrot developers to learn 
from 5's macros, is that both macros and functions, the entire internal API, must 
be documented.  If new people are to ever learn and contribute, documentation on the 
rational and perfered usage patterns is mandatory.

I think the improvements in the documentation of perl's internals in recent years
deserves a round of applause.  Still, Parrot really must do better, if it is to
succeed. 

Dave Goehrig

qw/ who is praying for parrot to support XS code, 
  	cause he doesn't want to rewrite
  	SDL_perl's 11,000 lines /;
	 

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