[Lazarus] Documentation and Help for Lazarus (content)

waldo kitty wkitty42 at windstream.net
Fri Aug 21 03:01:47 CEST 2009


Martin wrote:
> Another thing about the help. And i feel bad about saying this, because 
> I really appreciate the effort that was made. And criticizing it without 
> having contributed seems all wrong.
> Never the mind, since we talk about it, I feel it should be mentioned

thank you very much, martin, for posting that... i have been fighting with 
myself for a long while how to approach the topic... many things that are 
documented are pretty terse and do not carry easy to understand explanations of 
their who, what, why, where, and when aspects... yes, even some "good" book on 
programming topics are hard to understand but still... perhaps a step back to 
the early days and simpler times is needed? that and maybe someone who 
understands geek but doesn't speak geek should be involved to "average joe" the 
documentation?

i also hope that this current effort on developing a help system also carries 
over to the Lazarus and FPC projects so that they do end up with good offline 
documentation that budding programmers can easily understand, follow and learn 
from...




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