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> Unfortunately, programming in C++ is really brutal for people who would rather learn by example than by carefully reading documentation. This is a great obse
by jdashg 6y ago
> Unfortunately, programming in C++ is really brutal for people who would rather learn by example than by carefully reading documentation.
This is a great observation! There's probably a ton of this that feeds the "$lang/api/framework is garbage"/"no it's not" schisms. "Well do you prefer documentation or a REPL?"
- whatshisface 6y ago"A manual is a human-operated type system."
- DougBTX 6y agoIn some languages the documentation is available as essentially a property of the documented object, so pulling up docs in the repl is easy. It isn’t quite a binary choice.