On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 06:17:04PM -0700, Stephen Satchell wrote: > I don't know about others, but when I run into the same situation, > instead of saying "just Google it" I provide a few links to get the > asker a start.
Who said "just Google it"? > Back in the beginning, before the Internet, before ARPAnet, I would > provide a few references for the person on a quest to look up in the > library. Working on the theory that "give a person a fish, they eat for > a day; teach them to fish and they eat forever." Something like mentioning not one but two string similarity algorithms by name, stating that there are many others, and providing a link to get started? What a good idea, if only I had thought of doing something like that... -- Steven _______________________________________________ code-quality mailing list -- code-quality@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to code-quality-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/code-quality.python.org/