Re: WG: [PEAR-DEV] [Call for Votes] XML_Statistics

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 19:34, Stan Lemon wrote: > Alexey, > How much time does it take to figure out the code first before I can > write a tutorial? By the way, in ref. to HTML_BBCodeParser I spoke with > the maintainer and posted it here, both have left me with no response as > far as a maintainer role or applying the patches. Poor boy - has to read source code to understand things. ;) > > As far as the inline doc's at this point being sufficient. They may be > for you... but now let's take little Johnny who is just starting off in > PHP and was looking into parsing an XML file he uses for his resume. > Johnny finds out PEAR has several XML libraries which may be of use to > him. Now Johnny needs to find out the stats of his xml file, > specifically number of tags, white spaces, etc. So he decides to use > XML_Statistics. Problem is, Johnny is new to PHP and can't assume as > much as Mr. Borzov can, and thus XML_Statistics is complicated to him. > > Stop thinking of developers like yourself, and instead think of those > newbies out there. There's two side to what PEAR does, helps the > current sophisticated developers deploy code quickly, but also helps > know-nothings like Johnny. > Due to your analogy it is all much simpler: thank you for explaining it in terms that even an idiot like me can understand. -Sterling -- King's Law of Clues : Common sense is inversely proportional to the academic intelligence of the person concerned.