(Sounds like a John LeCarre novel, doesn't it?)
The core of Shlomi's annoyingness is right here:
The standard "don't whine unless you implement it yourself" approach is a little dangerous for an open source developer. If you recognize a good idea from your users, you should either implement it yourself or (in the case of Perl) make a call-for-action saying it should be done, and see someone implementing it for you.Nothing is impossible to the man who doesn't have to do it.
Something I just don't understand about this whole debate is why the camel and the llama don't suffice for Perl documentation. I learned Perl from reading (and continuing to read) these books. Perhaps I'm more comfortable with books than I am online docs. Is Shlomi talking about another level of documentation?
Re:docs
petdance on 2003-04-18T21:11:09
He's saying that Larry & Randal should give away the Camel & Llama for free.Re:docs
Louis_Wu on 2003-04-19T00:12:37
DagNabbit, now I'm interested in the whole thing. I was trying to read about Shlomi without reading everything: conserve my time and gather the perls of wisdom second hand. Now that I know this dude wants handouts (or, rather, now that the gossip says that he wants handouts), I have to read the whole thing. Maybe I'll get a laugh out of it.(heh, for pearls of wisdom, try this thread at Perlmonks - Damian's response is priceless.)
