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Re: Documentation for car and cdr
From: |
Thien-Thi Nguyen |
Subject: |
Re: Documentation for car and cdr |
Date: |
25 Jan 2006 19:25:31 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 |
Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> writes:
> Because that would force the poor hacker to go and look
> somewhere else. Having to go and look somewhere else is always
> a pain in the posterior, particularly when a one-liner
> explanation is all that is sought.
if a "hacker" feels "forced" to search widely due to not
understanding something, then that is a poor hacker indeed!
a righteous hacker (fledgling or otherwise) would happily snort
the challenging docstring like the gateway drug it is, disappear
for a few days imbibing more in-depth documentation, and reappear
later wielding `M-x report-emacs-bug' on those bits, instead (if
need be).
we can drop (or ignore) the hacker mystique if we want, but it's
easier to tell ordinary programmers: try to emulate the hackers.
luckily in this case, that is the best advice to give. climb the
trunk feet skyward; dance on the leaves but hold on to the root.
thi
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, (continued)
Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/01/25
Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Alan Mackenzie, 2006/01/25
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Bill Atkins, 2006/01/25
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Alan Mackenzie, 2006/01/25
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Bill Atkins, 2006/01/25
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, David Kastrup, 2006/01/25
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr,
Thien-Thi Nguyen <=
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Lennart Borgman, 2006/01/25
- Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2006/01/25
- RE: Documentation for car and cdr, Drew Adams, 2006/01/26
RE: Documentation for car and cdr, Drew Adams, 2006/01/26
Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Miles Bader, 2006/01/25
Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Miles Bader, 2006/01/25
Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Lennart Borgman, 2006/01/25
Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Alfred M\. Szmidt, 2006/01/25
Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2006/01/25
Re: Documentation for car and cdr, Alan Mackenzie, 2006/01/25