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>because the manual is correct, well-written, etc. It's also verbose and requires effort and working memory to parse, when I could get a trivial one line answe
by twofornone 5y ago
>because the manual is correct, well-written, etc.
It's also verbose and requires effort and working memory to parse, when I could get a trivial one line answer or code snippet from a stackoverflow post specific to my question. Yes, in an ideal world we would all read the manual, but unfortunately manuals are inconvenient. And in my experience the vast majority of stackoverflow answers are correct.
- PaulHoule 5y agoI think it takes a lot of effort and working memory to ignore the ads and correct the mistakes on sites like spam overflow, spam3school, etc. If it was was Clojure or some other language that has an awful online manual it is one thing but the Python manual is good.
- geoduck14 5y agoSpam overflow? Is that stack overflow? And... I'm guessing w3school?