Timeline for What is GNU Info for?
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| Jun 12, 2018 at 3:21 | comment | added | Astara | I am used to books for reference materials. I can read them cover-to-cover. If manuals and books are inadequate for writing documentation, computers and languages would never have been taught or learnt. In learningk most follow a progression from low->high knowledge with more complex topics building on simpler ones. Books are almost what every child learns from -- sequentially presented information. H-links are for focusing on random topics of interest: if expert & master of topic - you know what you want and links can take you there fast. For reference & learning, links are a poor fit. | |
| Feb 7, 2015 at 5:15 | history | edited | Faheem Mitha | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited body |
| Jun 15, 2013 at 9:50 | history | edited | Faheem Mitha | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 429 characters in body |
| May 29, 2013 at 16:49 | comment | added | tripleee | +1 especially for the note about hypertext, which I think was a major reason to want to move away from the (then more than now) hardcopy-oriented man format. | |
| May 29, 2013 at 15:02 | history | answered | Faheem Mitha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |