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Re: Poor State of the Man Pages

From:
Shlomi Fish
Date:
November 29, 2003 06:42
Subject:
Re: Poor State of the Man Pages
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.56.0311291641200.22461@vipe.technion.ac.il
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, Arthur Bergman wrote:

>
> On Friday, November 28, 2003, at 08:31  pm, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> >
> > I'd like to have a good, free, high-quality reference for Perl, that
> > would
> > be suitable for beginners as well as hard-core Perl/UNIX/shell/whatever
> > hacker-supreme gurus. Something like Python has at
> > http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.2/, PHP has at
> > http://www.php.net/manual/en/, etc. Is it too much to ask? Is it too
> > much
> > to expect? And if it is, how come you explain that it exists for both
> > Python and PHP now, which are two of our biggest competitors?
> >
> >
>
> Shlomi,
>
> Here in London.pm we usually use the term JFDI when discussing problems.
>
> This stands for
>
> JUST FUCKING DO IT
>
> So I suggest, instead of wasting more of my valuable time with this
> thread, go and write a good free high-quality reference for Perl that
> would be suitable for beginners.
>

I intend to do just that.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish



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Shlomi Fish        shlomif@vipe.technion.ac.il
Home Page:         http://t2.technion.ac.il/~shlomif/

An apple a day will keep a doctor away. Two apples a day will keep two
doctors away.

	Falk Fish



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