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000039_icon-group-sender _Wed Feb 7 11:47:33 1996.msg
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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:29:46 MST
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 11:47:33 -0600
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From: gep2@computek.net
Subject: On-line IPL documentation
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>An example of this is a collection of IPL Web pages rooted at
http://www.cs.utsa.edu/research/icon/ipl/HTML/
>Suggestions on improving this documentation are welcome.
I've taken a look at the Web page. Here are my preliminary comments:
1) The directory listing would be more usable if it were posted as an unordered
list, so that entries would be on separate lines (note that not everybody
chooses to use Netscape).
2) I think it would also be helpful to give some indication as to how major
and/or complete the application is. A trivial fifteen-line program that "counts
words and lines of a source file" is obviously in a very different class than a
much more ambitious application of several hundred (or thousand) lines. The
kind of information that could be collected automatically and which might give
at least a hint about program completeness would be lines or bytes of source,
and perhaps how many different data files the program uses.
Gordon Peterson
http://www.computek.net/public/gep2/