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Re: Current documentation outline

From:Adrian Morgan <morg0072@...>
Date:Tuesday, September 12, 2000, 0:25
Irina Rempt wrote, quoting myself:

> > Documentation is dependent on content. If a language has some unusual > > or complex feature in its grammar, the documentation must work around > > this. > > Concedo. Which doesn't mean that the general layout of what you did > can't be useful as a model for people who are not naturally as > thorough.
Well, it's true that I'd like to write software documentation professionally sometime in my life ... and it's true that I think I have more or less the right skills to do this.
> > P.S. One o' these days I'm gonna pinch a whole bunch of words from > > Valdyan, for my vocab. > > You're welcome :-) It may be of some interest to you that 'dragon' is > _brach_, plural _brachi_.
Of course, most of 'em won't mean the same thing when I've finished with them :-) I adapt words freely. The Welsh word for "sharp, keen, acute" (awchlym, IIRC) provided my word for "expert" (iwkklim), and the Swedish word for "to pick [of flowers]" (plocka) provided my word for "colour". Much credit to "The Collin's Welsh-English Dictionary" and to "Teach Yourself Swedish" - two books that I bought for precisely this purpose. -- web. | Here and there I like to preserve a few islands of sanity netyp.com/ | within the vast sea of absurdity which is my mind. member/ | After all, you can't survive as an eight foot tall dragon | flesh eating dragon if you've got no concept of reality.