From: jrb3@...
Date: 2004-03-24T02:01:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Need some advice on PickAxe II

> Lothar Scholz wrote:

> I'm not saying we don't need the API, it just bothers me when people
> believe that an API is an acceptable way to learn the library from the
> getgo.  If the API is well documented enough to have decent tutorials in
> it then perhaps, but that is not what most of the API's I have seen
> possess, though I find java to suffer from this even worse then ruby.

    <thePennyDrops>Oh, of course!</thePennyDrops>  Unit-test libraries
within the libraries themselves, as if in Extreme Programming fashion!

    This will document the API with examples, and gift us with more ways
to support ports (eg to JRuby or new hardware).

        Joseph Beckenbach
        lead XP tester, Eidogen Inc.