Re: Design

2000-11-03 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
One more random credo I just made up: By the time you add the seventeeth argument/member/field/function to your function/struct/class/API you should start seriously suspecting that maybe your API needs a rethink. (For the first three, rethinking at five elements

Re: Design

2000-11-03 Thread John van V
>once you've lost it, [ simplicity, that is ] it's never >coming back How true, I'm not holding my breath for CGI.pm divesment. Simplicity to me as an integrator/admin means having set of binaries that can be recompiled, or preferably configed, into diverse implementations with uniform result

Re: virtual machine implementation options

2000-11-03 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:52:45AM -0800, Steve Fink wrote: > Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > > Some sort of SGI megaserver, dunno MHz, but load is high (more than > > five times the number of CPUs...), so the following numbers are a tad slow, > > but I guess relatively right: > > > >

Re: virtual machine implementation options

2000-11-03 Thread Steve Fink
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > Some sort of SGI megaserver, dunno MHz, but load is high (more than > five times the number of CPUs...), so the following numbers are a tad slow, > but I guess relatively right: > > -O3 none > > switch 7.027.70 > orig16.

RFC: Perl should support non-linear text

2000-11-03 Thread Roland Giersig
Hi folks, I know, the RFC period is over, but still... Please, read this through and tell me if it's a good idea or not. Actually, it's not mine, I just wrote it down. But see for yourself... Roland --snip-- =head1 TITLE Perl should support non-linear text. =head1 VERSION Maintainer: Ro