In message <mailman.716.1289144941.2218.python-l...@python.org>, Emile van Sebille wrote:
> On 11/7/2010 2:26 AM Lawrence D'Oliveiro said... >> In message<pan.2010.11.06.23.19.1...@nowhere.com>, Nobody wrote: >> >>> A reference manual tells you how to use the language. A specification >>> tells you how to implement it. >> >> Speaking as someone who has read more reference >> manuals/specifications/whatever you want to call them than I can count, I >> have never come across any such distinction. > > Surely you see the difference between RFC5321 and for example Courier's > man pages? One's the specification and the other's the reference manual. The language in question being ... ? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
