Re: Why such bad documentation?

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From: Michael Hall
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00

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Their documentation leaves a lot to be desired, but you have to admit it
sure is cost effective just to drop in Sun's HTML docs.

Rich Morey wrote in message <68bvl6$q709@forums.borland.com>...
>Hello!
>
>Is anyone besides me befuddled by Borland's choice to imitate the
>terrible documentation implementation used by Microsoft in their
>Visual Studio development suite in JBuilder?
>
>I had played around with Microsoft J++ and was so annoyed at
>the documentation / help files. I had looked forward to using JBuilder
>and having the documentation like Delphi -- where you click on a component
>and get hot links to METHODS, PROPERTIES, etc..
>but this does not exsist in JBuilder either!! Did Sun make all these
>companies write crappy documentation to frustrate all us programmer?
>
>Please reply -- I hope I'm not the only one who feels this way.
>
>

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