Manual pages (which are reference material) and tutorials are two very different kinds of writing. Manual pages are usually more difficult to understand than (good) tutorials, because they have to be *very accurate* and as complete as possible (if not exhaustive), while tutorials can leave out some intricacies or gory details.
Le ven. 6 déc. 2019 à 07:30, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users < perl6-users@perl.org> a écrit : > On 2019-12-05 02:38, Tom Browder wrote: > > I have had several email conversations with Andrew and he seems like a > > nice person to me. I sometimes think non-native English speakers pick up > > bad speech habits because of the absolutely sewer-mouthed "popular" > > folks on Twitter. > > > For a non-native speaker, he sure runs circles around my > native speaking ability. Kind of humbling. > > I am glad this is a not a typical thing for him. His > writing and examples are really well done. Not > one sign of IEEE-eese anywhere. And I perfectly > understand everything he says. He makes the complex > seem simple. And that takes talent. > > In college, I had several Vietnamese friends that when > they got together and started speaking Vietnamese to > each other, they swore in English like a sailor. When > I started laughing, I got the "what?" from them. When > I told them they were swearing in English, they > adamantly denied it. They did not even realizing > they were. It was hysterical. > > Maybe we could talk him into a re-write of the manual pages? >
