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Re^2: An alternative Perldoc siteby Ytrew (Pilgrim) |
on Jan 22, 2005 at 06:45 UTC ( [id://424197]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Please, someone, explain to me this "offbox, gotta be on the web" obsession with documentation?
For me, it's simple. I usually use the documentation that's sitting right on my computer. But sometimes, I need more. I only keep documentation for the version(s) of Perl that I'm running. It's occasionally quite useful to check the online docs for a different version, and compare feature sets. If I find a bug in my version of Perl, switching versions may solve my problem. If a feature was changed in a given release, my code may need to change slightly as well. Good documentation can help in both cases.
Online documentation sites provide this information in an easy-to-browse format, for which I'm quite grateful. Downloading a full perl installation just to read documentation is a waste of time and bandwidth.
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