On Jul 2, 2004, at 2:44 PM, Marian Petrides wrote:
Dan's book helps but it isn't sufficient--and doesn't look like it will be, even when all 3 volumes are finished. Using the standalone builder as an example, Dan takes you through the most important items in it just fine, but does not help define the more cryptic elements.
Marian......
Pretty harsh judgement based on not having most of the manuscript in publication yet.
One has to begin somewhere. If I wrote a complete, all-topics, no-holds-barred, detailed chapter on the Standalone Builder, it'd be 50 or more pages long, and a big chunk of it would be of little or no interest to 90% of Rev users. Esoterica is stuff a programmer expects to learn on his or her own, with help from the community and tech support. No book can cover all details of *any* aspect of the product.
BTW, and FWIW, this whole dialog about the lack of usefulness of the documentation is pretty absurd to someone like me who has learned a dozen programming languages over the years without a formal degree in CS or any deep professional training. These docs are amazingly thorough. It may take a while to find stuff in them but I've had to deal with programming tools my whole career where the only reason it was hard to find something is because it wasn't there. The recipes and how-to's that were added to the last rev of these docs are amazingly helpful.
I don't' mean to be harsh but maybe the problem is that some of us expect to find the answers lying around on the ground. You gotta dig for diamonds, folks.
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