"Games under GNU/Linux have usually been a lacklustre affair. For every Tux Racer, there are a hundred sub-standard Pac-man clones you'd be embarrassed to advocate. For every commercial version of Quake, there's a hundred other worthy games the publisher elected not to port to GNU/Linux. Without good games, there's no market, and without the market, no effort is spared. And so the cycle continues. In this article, I will look at two of the areas in which GNU/Linux games have succeeded, and a new device that combines them both, which could help expose GNU/Linux to the populous."
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Member since:2005-07-06
tmack: As a "serious" developer, I'd like to inform you that we go though pages and pages of documentation on a daily basis.
Usually, if you can program in a language of some kind, you also have basic reading skills.
That has nothing to do with the discussion. Documentation in any format be it formal or informal requires reading skills and formal documentation often has many more pages from my experience (1,000's).
I would also add that many "serious developers" have a deadline they need to meet. Well written and well organized formal documentation is usually a little easier to deal with simply because they have things like indices that take you directly to what you want rather than having to search through 22 pages which may not have anything to do with what you need to know.
Personally... I like having formal documentation AND informal documentation. They both seem to get different things right in my opinion.
Member since:2006-03-12
I read books, thats not the same as documentation. I read books, becuase they contain new techniques, or new information, and I apply those into current projects.
Again I don't know what a serious developer is, I would describe myself as a computer person. I find it easier to use a search box than use an indices, for obvious reasons.
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2006-04-11
As a "serious" developer, I'd like to inform you that we go though pages and pages of documentation on a daily basis.
Usually, if you can program in a language of some kind, you also have basic reading skills.
Or at least you should.
Edited 2006-05-31 22:08