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Re: Mathematica Documentation

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  • Subject: [mg38214] Re: Mathematica Documentation
  • From: Tom Burton <tburton at brahea.com>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 03:31:24 -0500 (EST)
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On 12/4/02 12:36 AM, in article askeqj$ktj$1 at smc.vnet.net, "DGolber"
<dgolber at aol.com> wrote:

> All I can say is that, when someone asks me about Mathematica, I'll say it is
> hard to use for many reasons, and one of them is the poor documentation.

If you insist on painting with spray gun, then "poor" is an unfair color.
Using a brush, I would paint the documentation of graphics packages "needs
improvement" and recommend that you supplement the free documentation with
the book "Mathematica Graphics" by Tom Wickham-Jones.

Tom Burton



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