POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Woo, Open Source! : Re: Woo, Open Source! Server Time
6 Sep 2024 03:15:27 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Woo, Open Source!  
From: Invisible
Date: 2 Mar 2009 10:54:45
Message: <49ac0145$1@news.povray.org>
>> So... yeah, not actually as impressive as it sounds at first, eh? :-/
> 
> Are you KIDDING me?  You just did something that 99% of open source 
> programmers are totally and completely incapable of doing!

Er, how do you figure that? If you're an "open source programmer" then, 
by definition, you must spent time programming OSS. (Which, technically, 
would be more than I just did. All I did was write a paragraph or two of 
documentation...)

> Great job!

Heh, thanks.



In truth, all I actually did was describe what one of the Haskell 
compiler switches does. (It makes a compiled Haskell program dump a 
terse description of how it was compiled.) The compiler manual already 
said the flag was there; I just wrote a few words about what the dumped 
data is supposed to mean, based mainly on dumping some data and using 
common sense. (But also leafing through the source code a little so I 
could look at the comments.)


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