Re: [MacPerl] Shuck, AS, Perl, whatever, Pt 3.

[oszarazi@cuug.ab.ca (???)]

On Sun, 2 Mar 1997, Matthias Ulrich Neeracher wrote:

> guinn@mail.utexas.edu (Tim Guinn) writes:
> >At 15:32 pm on 03.01.97 Bart Lateur <bart.mediamind@tornado.be> said:
> >>Shuck doesn't use html, but a vaguely comparable file format, known as
> >>"pod" (Pages Of Description). It is a rather widely accepted format on
> >>Unix systems.
> >
> >Mmmm, I think it's 'Plain Old Documentation'?
B> 
> Yes, and it's widely accepted *within* the Perl community but not on
> Unix in general. Furthermore, on most platforms, pod is translated
> into either HTML or troff for viewing.

Gee.  I thought that plain old documentation (generally) wasn't
marked up at all in any fashion.  Sort of like a README file.

That makes it a lot easier for those people who can't make "Shuck"
work straight outta the box.

> >>BTW, although I'm not a native English speaker, I think there's
> >>something wrong with the idea of a corn cob. The word "pod" rather makes
> >>me think of beans or peas, not corn. Am I wrong?

I'm not a native English speaker either.  Pod makes me think though of
that "body snatcher" movie ...

> Technically correct, I believe, but aw shucks, I was just doing some free
> associatin'.

Free association is a very dangerous thing.

> Right, that was part of the intent...
> 
> >      ...in that the application doesn't have all the feature-bloat
> >      of common browsers that you mention.

Plain ascii is nice for *feature* bloat.  

> >It's a great application, though. 

But it doesn't run on all 68K machines.  And that makes it a bit of a 
problem for those people who aren't (for whatever reasons) able to have
the "state-of-the-art" computer hardware that is prevalent in the 
Western industrialized nations.

And I know this is a tired argument ... (one I've made often enough in
shareware circles ... where some "shareware" fees represent an entire
months income in some countries.)

But that's just a quibble.



Istvan   <oszarazi@cuug.ab.ca>