- From: David Dorward <david@dorward.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 19:46:49 +0100
- To: QA Dev <public-qa-dev@w3.org>
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 09:36:00PM +0300, Ville Skytt? wrote: > The current validator and link checker codebases are plain scary for > newcomers, and sometimes also for the more regular contributors (at > least myself). Here here. I've poked at it a few times, and it can be a bit difficult to see what is going on. > Perl itself is certainly a turn off for some potential contributors, > even if the current team working on this stuff is comfortable with it. > I don't personally have a problem with that. Personally, I love Perl. Best programming language in the world ;) > But the one-huge-script-does-everything approach is a worse problem. Yup, it could do with being broken up in to discrete modules. > Thankfully we'll be getting rid of it in the foreseeable future; Woo hoo! (OK, this is, in effect, a "me too" post, but in this case I think it would be helpful to know that there are "me too"ers out there) -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk
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