H.S. wrote:
There's still something awfully useful and compelling about a serious reference manual, all in one place, with a comprehensive table-of-contents, detailed index, and embedded references.Douglas A. Tutty wrote:On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:Document it all you want. But don't expect Joe Toothbrush to read it all. If one _wants_ go through pages upon pages of docs to create something new, that's great and the more the merrier. But if one _must_ go through the docs to use the product, then by virtue or Occam's razor the OS with the least documentation is the easiest to use.<SNIP>I'm one to read the 1000 page book cover-to-cover. That way, I'll rememeber a significant amount and know exactly where to look when I need something I don't remember.Now a days google is a *huge* help in this.
-- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra