On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Dan Bron<[email protected]> wrote: > I wrote: >> How do other languages do it? > > Raul responded: >> Imperfectly. > > True, but trivial. There is no such thing as the "right" index, > only good (and bad) indices.
Yes, well... I have given up on installing MSDN on new visual studio development machines. Google usually gives significantly faster and more relevant results. > But I was asking more along the lines of: what ideas, > methods, tools, or technologies do other languages > use to satisfy "how do I" questions, in the language's > primary online documentation? Outside of MSDN, I am used to a few readmes, a faq, a few reference works and tutorials, and ideally a community of users with some answers. (MSDN probably also implements some variant of that model.) > Or, perhaps, how do users expect to be able to ask > these types of questions, and how can we improve > the answers? When someone wants to know "how do > I trim in J", do they ask Google first? The J Wiki? > Find-in-Help-Files in the J session? The Ndx? The trivial answer would be: any of these, depending on the user. > PS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trim_(programming)#J Looks decent enough. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
