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 @mhoye TBF, the man pages of some UNIX systems are downright awesome (SunOS), even the POSIX standard's man pages read okay. The GNU stuff is quite horrible though. Maybe more of a personality cult around old school UNIX would've been better? :'-) [That being said, stack overflow is quite often crap. And unfortunately there's much incentive to get something "running" without understanding "thing" because that would take a little longer in the short-term.] 6 comments
@ljrk @mhoye (I worked at Sun 1989->2017). The technical writers at Sun were definitely professional and persistent. Like many things there, that department was cut repeatedly over the years to save money. Many of us ended up writing our own man pages when resources became scarce. The linker folks always wrote their own; the SunOS Linker and Library Manual is an excellent resource for Linux as well, since so much of Linux's dynamic linking was patterned after Sun's. @bsmaalders @mhoye To this day, alanc is still chugging along and fixing man pages with every release <3 Not only that, I'm of the opinion that my time with smf as well as with ldoms has helped me quite some when dealing with systemd and libvirt. There's a *lot* that has been copied (and I'm rather glad for it). |
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@ljrk @mhoye For what it's worth, one of the SO leads told me quality is getting killed by people machine gunning answers there for resume building purposes.