13 Dec
2011
13 Dec
'11
8:54 p.m.
On 13/12/11 11:04 PM, David Riley wrote:
On Dec 13, 2011, at 20:51, Toby Thain<toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
That's odd. I thought you'd prefer turgid, rambling, incorrect crud! :)
But, programmers don't need to be able to write well*, according to some
on this list. So be grateful for anything you get.
--T
* - E.W. Dijkstra, Peter Norvig, C.J. Date, and others have disagreed...
in print. But what would they know! Bunch of effete WRITERS who never
knew a day's work...
Most Linux distros I've seen have very good
man page sets. And even better: Texinfo!
(Yes, I proudly fly the Team Texinfo flag...)
I mean, it's OK. I think I prefer well-written, concise man pages (like
OpenBSD's, which are quite good.
- Dave