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6 Sep 2024 05:18:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Damn I hate open source  
From: nemesis
Date: 4 Apr 2009 12:50:01
Message: <web.49d78f217ecfc9ec1ec805060@news.povray.org>
Saul Luizaga <sau### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> > Saul Luizaga wrote:
> >> Haskell I presume?...
> >
> > More specifically, every open source project I've ever been hired to
> > look into that was intentionally designed to be extended or embedded by
> > the end user. None of them (besides Tcl) has ever had any documentation
> > on how you're supposed to use the libraries. Applications, sure.
> > Something that only programmers see? Why the hell would we need any
> > *prose* for that?
> >
> I see. Is there a council or .org that regulates open source projects
> structure that this kind of projects can base their work on? Or at least
> it should be, somewhere they can reference and get their projects in a
> more formal and understandable form.
>
> If not, I think someone would think about it.

Yeah, everyone is waiting for that rather than just digging into the code and
getting the hands dirty. :)


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