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Re^5: what does 1; does?

by djberg96 (Acolyte)
on May 06, 2008 at 17:57 UTC ( [id://685018]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: what does 1; does?
in thread what does 1; does?

It's kind of a lose-lose situation for any open source software, isn't it? If the core documentation is great people will complain that the books are a waste of money, since you can get everything from the documentation. If the core documentation is poor, people will complain that they're pumping the book market.

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Re^6: what does 1; does?
by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 06, 2008 at 20:16 UTC

    Very true. For all of the flaws of POD and the organization of the Perl core documentation sometimes, I think it's really spoiled us. It can be very difficult to compete with that documentation in a book.

    On the other hand, someone put a lot of work into the API browser for Rails, and for the Rails projects I did, I found it almost unusable. (Then again, I found the first Rails book almost useless too. I'm picky.)

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