Learn Technical Writing from Unix Man in 10 Days
Quote from man apt-get:
remove
remove is identical to install except that packages are
removed
instead of installed.
Translation:
kicking
kicking is identical to kissing except that receiver is kicked
instead of kissed.
further readings:
• 〈The Idiocy of Computer Language Docs〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/idiocy_of_comp_lang.html
• 〈Why Open Source Documentation is of Low Quality〉
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/gubni_papri.html
• 〈Python Documentation Problems〉
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_doc_index.html
DISAPPEARING URL IN DOC
so, i was reading man git. Quote:
Formatted and hyperlinked version of the latest git documentation
can
be viewed at http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/.
but if you go to that url, it shows a list of over one hundred fourty
empty dirs.
I guess unix/linux idiots can't be bothered to have correct
documentation. Inability to write is one thing, but they are unable to
maintain a link or update doc?
does this ever happens to Apple's docs? If it did, i don't ever recall
seeing it from 18 years of using Mac.
more records of careless dead link:
• 〈Hackers: Dead Links and Human Compassion?〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/hacker_dead_links_and_compassion.html
• 〈Why Qi Lisp Fails and Clojure Succeeds〉
http://xahlee.org/UnixResource_dir/writ/qi_lang_marketing.html
• 〈unix: Hunspell Path Pain〉
http://xahlee.org/comp/hunspell_spell_path_pain.html
• 〈Python Doc URL disappearance〉
http://xahlee.org/perl-python/python_doc_url_disappearance.html
• 〈A Record of Frustration in IT Industry; Disappearing FSF URLs〉
http://xahlee.org/emacs/gnu_doc.html
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