I am continually puzzled as to why people want to go off their own box to look for docs elsewhere, when in fact everything that they need is right at their fingertips. Why is this?

I mean, I type "man" (well, I have GNU emacs do that for me behind the scenes). I type "perldoc -t". I can even use tkpod if I really want a pointy-clicky-hyperlinked docset. And all of those don't require an internet connection, and are much faster than going somewhere else. And, they refer to the precise version I have installed, not whatever version happens to be at a public website.

Please, someone, explain to me this "offbox, gotta be on the web" obsession with documentation?

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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In reply to Re: An alternative Perldoc site by merlyn
in thread An alternative Perldoc site by bart

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