Re:Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal
by 35bge57dtjku on Friday March 24, 2017 @01:17AM
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> I could point out that your grammar ('some of documentation') invalidates your entire comment, but that's kinda silly.
He's not writing the hopefully high profile documentation for a project that people want to be used, ffs. No, it doesn't deserve to be discarded because of that, but it's clearly suboptimal.
Re:Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal
by yawaramin on Friday March 24, 2017 @09:34AM
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You make it sound as if this version of the documentation is set in stone, forever. Can't small projects improve their documentation as they grow in popularity? E.g. do you think that Linus Torvalds' Linux documentation was always up to the highest standards of Strunk & White's prescribed English?
Re:Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal
by williamgb on Friday March 24, 2017 @02:12AM
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I absolutely do not share the opinion of person to whom you are replying, but to state that their comment is invalid due to a trivial typo is unnecessary, and has potential to be incendiary.
Re:Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal
by yawaramin on Friday March 24, 2017 @09:31AM
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I mean, that's why I said:
> ... but that's kinda silly.
Re:Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal
by williamgb on Friday March 24, 2017 @07:36PM
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What point were you trying to make? You made one great statement, with which I agree fully, but followed with statement drawing a comparison between the documentation for a funded open-source project, and a typo in a comment thread. It's not just "kinda silly", it's utterly asinine.
Re:Building a Command-Line Application with Crystal
by yawaramin on Saturday March 25, 2017 @08:06AM
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No, I said I could have drawn that comparison, but I wasn't going to, because it would be silly, just as knocking a cool project down because its creators aren't native English speakers is silly.
Um, what's wrong with that? Not everyone gets to learn English as their first language, do their efforts deserve to be discarded just because of that?
I mean, I could point out that your grammar ('some of documentation') invalidates your entire comment, but that's kinda silly.