Re: [doc] User Manual Suggestion

From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 24, 2009, 23:18 UTC
Message-ID: <b4087cc50904241618g5f1bed21m47f0e4bd1d0ca7ff@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090424231436.GA15058@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 18:14, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> but aren't
> they generally reviled among the progrmaming populace as the most
> complex and error-prone part of learning to program?

And now you know why people struggle with git; as I said in a previous email:

    http://marc.info/?l=git&m=124022418313288&w=2

    I think that the human brain struggles with indirection.
    Consider that so many programmers have a hard time
    understanding pointers; no wonderso many people
    find git's underlying concepts boggling.

Of course, the difference here is that we're not asking people to do memory management; we have garbage collection.

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