Some feedback on the website.

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 16 13:30:32 PST 2015


On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 01:00:19PM -0800, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 12/16/2015 12:21 AM, ZombineDev wrote:
> >Well DDoc may have it's disadvantages, but I'm certain that the
> >documentation would have been far worse if it wasn't for it.
> 
> No need to speculate :-) Before Ddoc, the Phobos documentation was
> horrific, probably the worst I'd ever seen. It was so bad it was
> unusual for there to be any correct documentation for a particular
> function, or even anything at all.
> 
> Ddoc utterly transformed that, almost overnight. It's hard to
> underestimate the positive impact Ddoc has had on D documentation.

I don't think anybody is questioning the value of ddoc as a
*documentation generator*. The issue here is whether it has the same
value as a *website programming language*. Very different things.


T

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