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I'd agree with this. I can't stand prolix documentation when I'm just trying to get something done (I'll never understand why people extol the Python docs!). I
by 0xADEADBEE 7y ago
I'd agree with this. I can't stand prolix documentation when I'm just trying to get something done (I'll never understand why people extol the Python docs!). I used bropages [0] for a while but it isn't as expansive as it should be, presumably on account of a lack of traffic.
I'm happy to read more expansive pages in my own time but when I'm 'in the zone' as it were, the last thing I want to do is read through why something works. Perhaps it's a gap in the market? Or more likely I'm in the minority!
- acqq 7y agoThe Python docs are, on the contrary, quite good when compared to the GNU man pages. There is an advantage of the context: the GNU *nix tools have to reflect how the things grew, totally independently, accidentaly and ad-hoc. Python is much narrower topic and the development mostly had some concept of the "overall goal."
- corey_moncure 7y agoThe Python docs opened the door to programming as a career for me in my late 20s. I/O, concurrency, polymorphism, it's all there. Thanks Python.