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From: dennisg@kgw2.bwi.WEC.COM (Dennis Glatting)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: No Documentation
Message-ID: <2120@kgw2.Xetron.COM>
Date: 29 Mar 91 15:38:01 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.104146.12808@sinix.UUCP>
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In article <1991Mar27.104146.12808@sinix.UUCP>, dhg@sinix.UUCP (David Griffith) writes:
|> Apparantly Steve Jobs is fond of glancing at people's products and
|> pronouncing "That's shit!". Well can I be the first to complain
|> that the online technical documentation supplied with 2.0 is shit?
|> 
|> I'm surprised no-one has pointed this out before, but there is NO
|> introductory developers documentation supplied with the system. So
|> here I am with my nice shiny new cube and state-of-the-art software
|> tools (NeXTStep, Interface Builder, Objective C, DSP) and I don't
|> know how to use it! What documentation there is is very low level.
|> 
|> Apparantly NeXT do have printed technical documentation in the
|> pipeline but it's not available yet and no-one knows when it will be.
|> 
|> So come on NeXT, pull your finger out. This is an appalling
|> omission in an otherwise excellent product.
|> 

calm down.

I and my team have been writing software for NeXTs for 18 months.
It is true that there should be a 2.0 concepts manual readily
available but there is not.  the 1.0 stuff gives one a good
starting point and probably covers much of the stuff in 2.0.

i've found excellent documentation on-line.  for example the appkit,
zones, and others.

certainly the lack of docs is stiffling but, being a developer that
uses leading edge technology, i have encountered this problem with 
other products as well but it rarely stops me.

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 ..!uunet!kgw2!dennisg  | Dennis P. Glatting
 dennisg@Xetron.COM     | X2NeXT developer
                        | NeXT/C++/Objective-C wienie