On 8 Mar 2005 17:07:31 -0800, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the help... > > ------- > the python doc is stilted. It tried to organized the thing and with a > style around some highbrow inane "computer science" outlook. > > i found the little section on global > (http://python.org/doc/2.4/ref/global.html) > and can't make out what shit it is trying to say without having read > and figured out the entire doc of its style and contexts and > definitions. (formalization varies and computing model and jargons mean > different things.) > > Python doc writers needs to re-organize and re-style their docs so that > its organization is towards programing, as opposed to how the > implementation works (as in the Lib Reference), or a formalization of > the language spec. (e.g. the fucking semi-joke of "(for language > lawyers)" and BNF and those Runtime "Service" shits.) Its style > needs to shift from highbrowism to pragmatic and exemplary. > > I've addressed some of the jargon-riding ills common in industry with > examples from the Python doc, archived here: > http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_dir/t2/xlali_skami_cukta.html > > as to the way of its stiltedenss and academicism, which make it hard > for programers to find or apply any info, i'll expound later. > > PS just so that there is no misunderstanding: The docs of unix and > Perl, are fucking criminally incompetent. Python docs, although stilted > in a academic way, but nevertheless is solid, and its writers are > educated, and tried best to make it a quality one, albeit sometimes > inevitably showed some masterbation and jargonization. While the unix > and Perl docs, (and essentially all things out of unix, e.g. Apache > docs), are fucking incompetent drivels and in many cases exorbitant > lies, and they semi-present it as humor and want and brainwash people > to take them as norm. In a nutshell, these people are spreading > untruths and indirectly are causing massive harm in the computing > industry. People, we need to stop it. This each of us can do by not > accepting their attitudes or behavior. In online forums, work place, > conventions, conversations etc., raise questions or otherwise voice > your opinion whenever you can. > > Xah > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/more.html > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
Have you submitted a patch? I'm curious how you would document "global". -- Sean Blakey Saint of Mild Amusement, Evil Genius, Big Geek Python/Java/C++/C(Unix/Windows/Palm/Web) developer quine = ['print "quine =",quine,"; exec(quine[0])"'] ; exec(quine[0]) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
