You got me all wrong! ; -) => Re: Simple programming language anyone?

[Derek Broughton]

Matthew Carpenter wrote:

> On of the coolest parts of Python is that it self-documents.  You write
> code into a module, import that module, then type "help(modulename)" and
> it
> documents itself.  This works for all importable python modules, limiting
> the importance of searching for documentation on the Internet or in books.
> 
> This is functionality rivaled only by Java with its Javadoc, except
> Javadoc requires a separate command that actually reads through a tree of
> source and
> is rather fickle.  Python's pydoc is quite brilliant and simple to use.

Perl has a perldoc these days, but when I got dragged into perl programming
last month, I couldn't even find an appliation to format it.  It's not only
a write-only language, it seems to have developed write-only documentation!
-- 
derek