pseudo-literate-programming in bfd

[Paul Koning]

On Jan 20, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Peter Lawrence wrote:

> All,
>      do the "powers that be" yet realize that the pseudo-literate-programming source code style in bfd
> is a mistake ?
> 
> I am not really that good a rhetoric, so I will not try to sway you now, I am just saying that from a software
> engineer's point of view (and I am in the middle of a port of binutils myself) the documentation for
> binutils isn't that great (M.R.Swami Reddy's doc is actually a good start in the right direction, and I
> intend to add to and extend his work as I do my own port) and that the stuff in bfd is actually an impediment.
> 
> am I preaching to the choir or pissing into the wind ?


Speaking only for myself, I'd say "neither".  I can't figure out from what you wrote what, if anything, is wrong, and how it could be made better.  It reads pretty much like a content-free rant.

If you want to suggest improvements, please suggest away.  

	paul