[TUHS] man-page style
arnold at skeeve.com
arnold at skeeve.com
Sun Nov 18 04:14:53 AEST 2018
Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> From my quotes page:
>
> How good is good enough: documentation
>
> Looking at Sun man pages versus Linux man pages is like looking at a Van
> Gogh or Monet after studying the work of the high school football player
> taking art as an "easy" elective.
>
> Amy Graf, BitMover
The man page authors / tech writers at Sun were paid to write man
pages, and learned / were taught how to do it well. The Linux stuff is
done by volunteers. You're comparing apples and oranges.
Arnold
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