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Despite the "incomplete and frequently wrong" nature of documentation, I still think a careful reading of that documentation is probably the best place to start
by presidentender 16y ago
Despite the "incomplete and frequently wrong" nature of documentation, I still think a careful reading of that documentation is probably the best place to start.
If it doesn't hold the answer, fine, we can look elsewhere. But it does hold the answer often enough that reading that funny manual first all the time will save time over the course of a career.
- berntb 16y ago>>I still think a careful reading of that documentation is probably the best place to start. I used to work like that in the mid-1990s. When I had a problem, first I thought a bit, then I looked at the documentation -- and as a last option I searched (at the time, mostly Usenet). A year later I'd become realistic (or lazy), I searched before reading the documentation. And after another year, I searched before even thinking about the problem... :-)