On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Peter Corlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:34:57AM -0500, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> > * On Tue, Apr 29 2008, Peter Corlett wrote:
> [...]
>
> >> Right, and I need to read the entire Linux and libc source code to be
> >> able to write a Unix application.
> > It will help, yes.
>
> It may well help, but it is not necessarily the best approach. The source
> code to a library is too low-level for a user of the library to really get a
> grip on how all the pieces fit together and are intended to be used.
Perhaps oddly, with Perl I've often found reading the _tests_ to be
more helpful than wading through the source of a library, particularly
if it builds on top of other code. (Of course, this presupposes a
good test suite, but...)
-Chris
--
Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia
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