16 Nov
2018
16 Nov
'18
4:50 a.m.
I have to write and rewrite to try to make things clear and concise.
Certainly worth doing but for some of us it takes a lot more typing
and thinking!
On Nov 15, 2018, at 7:38 PM, Ken Thompson via TUHS
<tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
and it takes a lot less typing.
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 7:18 PM, Rob Pike <robpike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> As someone whose résumé, the one that got me in the door at Bell Labs, was
> formatted with nroff -man, I of course support the clarity and precision
> Doug celebrates. I wish the rest of the world agreed, but it doesn't.
> Although I hold the editor line for much of the documentation for Go, for
> instance, I fend off frequent requests to rewrite and expand. Flab is felt
> to be friendlier, much as I (and Doug, who taught me more about writing than
> anyone else) would prefer the leaner cuts.
>
> -rob
>