At 14:22 2002-10-17 +1000, Iain 'Spoon' Truskett wrote: >* Sean 'TorgoX' Burke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [17 Oct 2002 14:18]: >[...] > > However, I do at times wonder why anyone in their right mind would > > write /another/ perlpodspec-compliant Pod-parser. [...] I can't think > > of a motivation that'd be worth the bother of doing it all over again. >Curiosity. >Or they're bored and want it to go EVEN FASTER! Mmm. C pod parser with >XS bindings.
Boredom and/or curiosity have driven lots of people to start trying to do all sorts of things -- spec-compliant SGML parsers in JavaScript, Common Lisp interpreter/compilers in Forth, whatever. But while boredom and/or curiosity are enough to get people started, they are almost never enough to get people to finish. The result is lots of half-done junk lying around. -- Sean M. Burke http://search.cpan.org/author/sburke/
