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I second this about the declining quality of docs. Part of the proliferation of different solutions to the same problem IMO is that existing solutions might ha
by pevey 4y ago
I second this about the declining quality of docs. Part of the proliferation of different solutions to the same problem IMO is that existing solutions might have such poor documentation that it may seem easier to seriously reinvent the wheel. I can vividly remember when php3 came out because I happened to be working on a project right then. This was before you could carry around iPhones and iPads, so I printed the whole manual and put it in a 4-inch binder so I could read it on the train, etc. I can still see those pages. I was new to programming in general at the time, but I could learn anything I wanted to do with php using those docs. Every single function was thoroughly explained. Haven’t seen anything like it in a very long time. The Prisma docs comes closest.