+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.
> >
> >
> >
>
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