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Documentation is cheating; you'll never become a rockstar developer that way! Most writers will try to answer the most common questions that a dev will have abo
by Chlorus 12y ago
Documentation is cheating; you'll never become a rockstar developer that way! Most writers will try to answer the most common questions that a dev will have about their code; this is just as bad, if not worse, than asking them questions yourself. You need to read the source code to truly understand.
I shudder at all the young minds that have been warped by the 'USAGE' statements in man pages; back in my day, we used to have to either guess at which arguments did what, or stare at the devs' custom, mangled argument parsing functions to figure out how to use a program.
- tracker1 12y agoLOL, that seems to be the case with node projects today... there are plenty of modules that work great, and have some documentation, but when you want to use something in a different way, you have to dig into it.