On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 11:07 AM, Richard Nuttall wrote:
I presonally use a combination of documentation for programming, and
find the Perl documentation more difficult to use than many.
That's an interesting observation -- I'd love to hear more thoughts on
that. Is it simply that, as you said further down, they are not
adequately cross-sliced, or are there other problems? Do you think the
current documentation is one of the reasons many people find Perl so
opaque, or is it simply the nature of the language?
Perl6 needs documentation that slices a number of ways, since the
syntax and structures are much richer and need much more explanation,
specially to newbies. This is again where an online, web-based
resource will work well.
MikeL
