No man pages? (was Re: More random python observations from a perl programmer)

Robert Kern kernr at mail.ncifcrf.gov
Thu Aug 19 23:57:31 EDT 1999


On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 02:57:24 +0200, Per Kistler <kistler at 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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