Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Sat, 19 Aug 2000 22:52:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: "waldschrotts guide to nifty references" - manualpage draft, version 0.9b | ||
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> De-facto, the manual has always been treated as a reference manual, and not
> a user's guide. I don't see tutorials being a part of it ever; Many
> people have written good tutorials, and we never thought about importing
> them into the manual, which is good. Would you expect to see tutorials in
> UNIX man pages? Neither would I.
There is nothing De-facto about it. The manual is not just a
reference. It never was. None of this is reference:
http://www.php.net/manual/features.php
And it is most definitely a useful part of the manual. We need more of
the same.
-Rasmus