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No man pages? (was Re: More random python observations from a perl programmer)
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 02:57:24 +0200, Per Kistler <kistler@fnmail.com>
wrote:

>John Landahl wrote:
>
>> What's all this about no Python manpages?
>>
>> $ man python
>> Reformatting page. Wait... done
>>
>> Misc. Reference Manual Pages PYTHON(10 April, 1998)
>
>It's there, but I think "perldoc perl" still has more
>to say. Why not offer all possible resources?

Lack of man-hours. Fred's the only person (AFAIK) who is officially
working on the docs. Doing the rest takes volunteers (hint, hint).
:-)

>Even tcl has more...
>
>-Per.

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No man pages? (was Re: More random python observations from a perl programmer) [ In reply to ]
Robert Kern wrote:

> Lack of man-hours. Fred's the only person (AFAIK) who is officially
> working on the docs. Doing the rest takes volunteers (hint, hint).
> :-)

If I'll ever proceed to a presentable state, I might do some docs,
but now it's much too early.

-Per.
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