i18n: Re: Some ideas on General Style
Subject:
Re: Some ideas on General Style
From:
Nicolas Chauvat ####@####.####
Date:
16 Apr 2002 09:34:32 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204161129160.593-100000@aries.logilab.fr>
[last post to discuss and i18n, thread is moving to lampadas ML]
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, David Merrill wrote:
> All my notes are published on my web site.
I read them. Looks good.
> Yes, I would. I actually know Python a bit also. But if we're going to
> go rewriting things, you'd damned well better be committed to helping,
> both with the rewrite and continued development after that.
I'm willing to help. Others from the traduc mailing list will be helping
too. You won't be alone.
> It was a toss-up for me whether to go with Perl or Python anyway. And
> as you probably know, 80% of the job is not the code itself, but
> understanding the problem. So a rewrite wouldn't take more than a week
> or so for a good coder.
>
> I assume you can read Perl well enough to do a reimplementation? It is
> not very complex Perl, after all.
I don't read perl but checked things out of CVS yesterday and started
porting the code to Python. There are a couple things I'll need help with,
but so far, I managed to make some sense out of the code.
I'll post my questions to the lampadas ML.
--
Nicolas Chauvat
http://www.logilab.com - "Mais où est donc Ornicar ?" - LOGILAB, Paris (France)
