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Old July 18th 20, 06:33 AM posted to alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
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Default Linux founder tells Intel to stop inventing 'magic instructions'and 'start fixing real problems'

On 2020-07-17 21:06, Jeff Barnett wrote:
Scripting interpreters are not a good example of an "ultra-high-level"
anything. Most are, in fact, among the worst documented, least reliable,
and least consistent from version to version of any software meant to be
used by non developers of that software. Of course you may argue that
they are completely consistent since documentation typically gives no
seriousÂ*detailsÂ*ofÂ*whatÂ*isÂ*supposedÂ*toÂ*beÂ* doneÂ*inÂ*boundaryÂ*cases.


Perl 5 has wonderful documentation (PerlDocs).

Raku's (Perl 6's) absolutely suck. They are
written as a refresher for those that already
know what they are doing. They are not completely
useless, just really close to useless. And often
have mistakes in them.

I program a lot in Raku. I love the language,
but not the docs.