Re: OpenSource documentation problems

"Adriaan Renting" <renting@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The good commercial docs are better because there it is understood
> how important this is.

Also, they are probably written by people who are trained technical
writers which has to help at least a bit... writing good documentation
is hard.

Whether the Python documentation is good or bad depends on what you're
comparing it to. It's probably not as good, say, as Apple's
documentation for Cocoa, but it could certainly be much, much worse.

Cheers,
mwh

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Enlightenment is probably antithetical to impatience.
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