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I used to be a "read the reference manual in full first" guy, but I was cured of that when I tried to read the whole manual for GNUS. Also, when you use a "obs

I used to be a "read the reference manual in full first" guy, but I was cured of that when I tried to read the whole manual for GNUS. Also, when you use a "obscure" language like lisp the documentation is often subpar/incomplete/obsolete/lying/whatever so sometimes the best it can bestow is a false sense of knowledge (which fortunately is somewhat useful to get started).

tjr 19y ago
You find Lisp documentation subpar/incomplete/obsolete/lying? Maybe for a given implementation of Lisp, but for the languages themselves, I have found Lisp documentation to be some of the best written that I've seen...
- Hexstream 19y ago
  I knew I should have specified I was talking about some of the librairies, not the language itself. :|
  - tjr 19y ago
    Ah, well, carry on, then, carry on. :-)