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LisPi

@mhoye I mostly got familiar with "tl;dr" as a summary for rants of message boards.

Or did some random service decide to confusingly name itself that?

1 Nov 2023 at 23:08 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.top
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LisPi

@mhoye Also, when the source code can be inspected at runtime, investigating the source of an error is much easier.

#Emacs has demonstrated this many times to me. #CommonLisp systems too.

I won't argue about the harmfulness of the unix brainworms, as I happen to agree as to their harmfulness.

I do not however believe the assessment about the loss of a generation is any certainty.

1 Nov 2023 at 23:11 | Open on mastodon.top
f.rift

@lispi314 @mhoye There is now a command called "tldr" that is some sort of abbreviated blurb halfway between whatis and a man page. The irony of naming the manual people use when they don't want to deeply rtfm after an acronym ending in "didn't read" seems to have eluded folks.

2 Nov 2023 at 5:43 | Open on x0r.be
Omar Antolín

@lispi314 @mhoye Some program did name itself tldr, but I don't think it's that confusing: it's for people who do know that documentation exists but think it is too long and want shorter documentation to read.

2 Nov 2023 at 18:02 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
LisPi

@oantolin @mhoye It did momentarily confuse me as I thought it was a claim the expression "tl;dr" had such origins (which it doesn't).

2 Nov 2023 at 18:05 | Open on mastodon.top
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