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Re: in defence of man pages

To: Steve Mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: in defence of man pages
From: Phillip Lenhardt <philen@ans.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:20:01 -0400
Cc: misc@openbsd.org
References: <19990923094734.C9317@tightrope.demon.co.uk>

Imho, OpenBSD focuses on things in the correct order:

    Correct code
    Correct manpages
    Correct faq/howtos

While it is unfortunate that doing things in this order tends to shut
out newbies, it is absolutely critical it be done this way. Imagine what
would happen if developers spent time writing howtos at the
expense of writing bad code with undocumented interfaces. The day that
the faq is more correct than the manpages is the day I find another OS
to run. :)

References:
- in defence of man pages
  - From: Steve Mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>
- in defence of man pages
  - From: Steve Mynott <steve@tightrope.demon.co.uk>

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