+1, Developers should be responsible and avoid un-constructive criticism in their documentation.
On 16/10/2007, Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at sun.com> wrote: > My only thought here is that the man page has a disparaging comment > about Perl in the introduction. > > While I do not necessarily disagree with the statement, I'm not sure it > is one that we'd normally like to make in documentation we ship; > especially given that we also ship Perl. > > Can we remove that particular phrase, or perhaps alter it to say > something about "improved readability compared to other scripting > languages" or somesuch? (Actually, the whole paragraph describing Ruby > probably could be removed. I don't think man pages are usually the best > place to evangelize a program. :-) > > -- Garrett > > PS: Here's the comment to which I refer: > > > > > > > If you want a language for easy object-oriented programming, > > or you don't like the Perl ugliness, or you do like the con- > > cept of LISP, but don't like too much parentheses, Ruby may > > be the language of your choice. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-arc mailing list > opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org > -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
