Darren New wrote:

> That's what always killed me about mathematical proofs. They always 
> start with all the details, and finally tell you why you care. :-)

Ooo... you know, I never thought of it like that.

I started reading a book on "Special Functions". Chapter 1 is about the 
Euler Gamma function. It goes into some pretty extreme calculus straight 
away, but I still haven't figured out what the hell the Gamma function 
is actually "for"...

> That's what is killing me about reading the Erlang documentation: there 
> are all sorts of cross-references, and no obvious place to start 
> reading.  I wouldn't be surprised if there are circular references 
> throughout, either.

The Oracle documentation is rather like that. There is no obvious place 
to start reading from. No matter what you read, it's littered with terms 
that haven't been defined yet.

This strikes me as bad documentation, frankly...

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