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- Subject: Re: [RFD] Unified Methods
- From: Rob Kendrick <rob@...>
- Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 17:18:36 +0100
In message <[email protected]> you wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Reuben Thomas wrote:
>
> > These are both good points, although I"m not sure that books will remain
> > for much longer a major source of information on programming languages,
> > and electronic editions are much easier to keep up to date. Besides, one
> > of the nice things about Lua is precisely that (if you"re already a
> > programmer) you can learn it quite happily from the manual.
>
> Hallo,
> I don"t know if it"s just me, but I hate to read for a long time
> on-line. I spend lots of money printing manuals (Lua"s inclusive) and
> sometimes buying a good book. I"m one of those people who believe paper
> will never disappear.
Snap. I have a lot of OS documentation in PDF format, which is actually
more up-to-date than the 5 fat volumes in paper format, but I still
prefer the paper ones... When the computer is sat then with a post mortem
of a crash; loading a PDF viewer isn"t really helpful ;-)
Cheers
--
Rob Kendrick, Kiwi Software (UK)
http://www.kiwisoft.co.uk/