On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 at 10:38 -0800, Michael Lazzaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I dunno anymore, maybe we need to rethink what place there is for > public domain docs at all. Perhaps we just have a man page that says > "buy the damn books, you cheapskate" and be done with it.
I trust you were joking, right? I learned perl3 by reading the 62 pages of the manual. I learned perl4 by reading the 76 pages of the manual, and then bought the book. For perl5 I read much of the manual, and bought and read 4 books. (there are nearly 2000 pages of pod documentation for perl5.9, not counting the perldoc of the installed modules). I expect that perl6 will have more online documentation, and I'll probably learn from the new books I purchase. With out authoritive online documention I don't think that perl6 will go anywhere.
