19 Nov
2018
19 Nov
'18
4:41 p.m.
On Nov 19, 2018, at 7:35 AM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 10:11 PM Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com
<mailto:jon@fourwinds.com>> wrote:
Sort of like Americans expecting others to speak to them in English when they travel
instead of understanding that they're in a different environment and it makes more
sense to learn the culture as it's unlikely that everybody is gonna change just for
you.
Amen, brother Jon, can we get another Amen..
As a recent traveller overseas, Amen to that.
What started this whole thread was Doug's comment about how succinct and to the
point man was. If was a fine interface for >>UNIX<<. Man (using roff) was
what people expect. It's not about better or worse -- it worked and worked well.
Clem
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The problem, as we have all converged on, is that writing well is hard. Writing concise,
targeted prose, is even harder. So we get bloat in man pages or the info system which is
just (IMHO) more bloat because people don’t want to spend the time writing well.
David