> >made.. they are charging for their API, at least they were.. I have never
> >checked back again.
> >
> >By let the general public have (free) access to the API docs, it in a way
> >encourages development.
>
> I think Aaron's point is not to charge for any access to the documentation,
> just for nicely printed versions. The online-readable (i.e. HTML)
> documentation would be freely available, but 3com would sell printed copies
> instead of giving away the PDF format.
thankyou Ben.. i was not flaming anyone this time around!
i dont mind using "many" windows.. my IDE is 'vi'.. and the unix
command prompt.. if you want anything done properly.. do it yourself,
i dont trust IDE's - they hide to much from the programmer..
grep, sed, more, gcc and lynx are my friends (text based) - not
adobe, metroworks, microsoft (memory hoggers)
RE: Java - no memory "hog", i was comparing the documentation formats,
Java uses HTML - and is PERFECT (to me).. i had no reference to
the performance issues of the language itself.
lynx is a unix HTML viewer.. with no images.. no memory consumption
there!?
if you use an IDE, you will never get the documentation to work
with your editors from within - there are simply too many people
to satisfy, and thats probably why 3com has used PDF :)
3com should also remember not everyone uses an IDE.
cheers.
az.
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