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Darren New wrote:
> It's fine for the details. But try to document (say) the BSD interface
> to TCP by documenting only the listen(), accept(), bind(), and connect()
> calls. Without understanding what an IP address is, or a socket, or how
> DNS works, etc you're still not going to win.
>
> Or take something like a big windowing system, or a 3D graphics system,
> or a physics library, and try to document *just* the routines without
> documenting the architecture of the system. You'll spend three days
> trying to find out where to start reading the documentation.
Ah yes... This is how I tried to learn OpenGL. (By reading function
descriptions, that is.) It's not very easy...
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