Comment by simoncion

> "Just" seven US Letter pages?

Yes. It's the syntax alongside prose explaining the behavior in detail. Go give it a read.

If you want documentation that's done up in the "modern" style, then you'll prefer that one-page cheat sheet that that guy made. I find that "modern" documentation tends to leave it up to each reader to discover the non-obvious parts of the behavior for themselves.

> I find Python ... easier to understand.

Have you read the [0] docs for Python's 'subprocess' library? The [1] docs for Python's 'multiprocess' library? Or many of the other libraries in the Python standard library that deal with nontrivial process and I/O management? Unless you want to underdocument and leave important parts of the behavior for users to incorrectly guess, such documentation is going to be much larger than a cheat sheet would be.

[0] ...twenty-five pages of...

[1] ...fifty-nine pages of...