Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Keith Thompson Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Experimental languages/features for C or similar Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 15:37:39 -0800 Organization: None to speak of Lines: 55 Message-ID: References: <49bb22bc-7863-4b60-9685-4706e4df93eb@googlegroups.com> <70398b95-088c-4936-9073-aafcb872d892@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="04a1531e1c4deccd6dbe268f8206796d"; logging-data="5904"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19nCHiZTWW07i/WJc/6txmw" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zpSSqNqdtvvomelUmkHaHbB7Vm8= sha1:A0GcAN1uzco75JCtPz3BRm3Wkyc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:96783 jacobnavia writes: > Le 17/11/2016 à 23:28, Keith Thompson a écrit : >> jacobnavia writes: >>> Le 17/11/2016 á 20:59, Keith Thompson a écrit : >>>> jacobnavia writes: >>>> [...] >>>>> When they make available the whole compiler with commented source code? >>>>> This is not just GNU that overwhelms us with megabytes of code where the >>>>> only comment is the copyright notice and no technical documentation. >>>>> This is a fully commented code in a top down manner, easy to get into. >>>> >>>> Are you saying gcc has no technical documentation? >>>> >>>> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/ >>>> >>>> (I make no comment on the quality of the documentation, since I haven't >>>> read it.) >>> >>> If you haven't read it why do you say that that is documentation? >>> >>> Well obviously you say that because you haven't read it. >> >> [snip] >> >> Apparently saying "I make no comment on the quality of the >> documentation, since I haven't read it" wasn't clear enough. >> Let me restate it more clearly for you. >> >> I MAKE NO COMMENT ON THE QUALITY OF THE DOCUMENTATION, SINCE I >> HAVEN'T READ IT. > > But you say that those 1256 bytes are "documentation". What 1256 bytes are you talking about? I posted a link to the index page of a manual containing 25 chapters. Is it not displaying correctly for you? I have the equivalent manual on my system as "gccint.info.gz", which is 2486404 bytes after decompression. I am not saying that the size of the documentation has anything to do with its quality. I am saying only that it exists. I said so, with an appropriate disclaimer. Anyone is free to follow the link and reach their own conclusions. If you're saying that it's of such low quality that it shouldn't even be called "documentation", I won't argue with you. As usual, I have no idea why you have a problem with me. [SNIP] -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc. "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"