The Next Big Language

[Andrej Mitrovic]

They are fantastic in comparison to D's documentation. :-)

On 10/19/10, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com> wrote:
> Andrej Mitrovic:
>
>> the Python documentation is just *fantastic*
>> (although I've heard some people disagree). It covers just about
>> everything you need to know (batteries included!), and there's always
>> instructions on how to use the library and the interpreter itself.
>> You're rarely left alone with a definition of some function without an
>> example or two + a thorough explanation on how the example works. I
>> really wish we had this for D2.
>
> Python docs are good enough, but not fantastic. There are hundreds of Python
> std lib features that don't have an example or have a not good enough
> example. The documentation of Delphi written by Borland was much better
> (generally Borland documentation was good). But Python is free (as in beer),
> so I don't complain (and people are welcome to improve Python docs).
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
>