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Stefan Monnier sez....
>
> >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Ricketts <tr@oxlug.org> writes:
> > But perl 5 has a perfectly good set of man pages.
>
> No. Perl is the quintessential example of a program whose manpages are mostly
> unusable simply because the documentation is too big for the `man' way of
> accessing it. If `man perl chop' worked, it would be OK, but it doesn't. An
> indexed and hyperlinked manual is much more valuable for those kinds of
> applications.
>
>
But, when one combines the perl manpages with the Camel Book (which is
always on the bookshelf right beside my console if not on my desk), that is
a lot better then the info documentation. Less obfuscated to access.

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Coy Hile
hile@cse.psu.edu
"Theirs not to reason why; theirs but to do...."
Tennyson, "Charge of the Light Brigade"

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