Talk:Getting Ready to Learn LSL

Gobbledygook

This page is very hard to understand. After reading this page I really have no idea how I'm supposed to get started in SL.

And I'm saying that as someone who's already created objects and written some cool scripts in SL. --Steamy Latte 16:35, 1 November 2007 (PDT)

So let's fix it. What's the first word you trip over? Or how else would you fix it? -- Ppaatt Lynagh 16:43, 1 November 2007 (PDT)

I added something at the beginning that I felt would make the tutorial more understandable. I didn't do a major overhaul of the remaining text that was already there, but I'd love to spend more time on this and make it really sing -- if nobody has any objection, that is. --Steamy Latte 16:51, 1 November 2007 (PDT)

I agree your new beginning improves this article. I'd love to see you make this article sing.

I think no one should object. The fine print we attach to every contribution includes the phrase "if you don't want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then don't submit it here". Me, I highly value that freedom to work together more easily by thinking of all submitted text as our imperfect text, forgetting as quickly as possible that the pieces of the old text that I typed myself once bizarrely did appear perfectly beautiful to me.

-- Ppaatt Lynagh 17:16, 1 November 2007 (PDT)

By the way, I'm reminded of the http://www.paulgraham.com/popular.html argument: "to become popular, a programming language has to be the scripting language of a popular system".

-- Ppaatt Lynagh 17:16, 1 November 2007 (PDT)

You have a fantastic perspective, PPaatt!! In that case, I'd like to take the existing observations (which have loads of helpful information in them) and expand the text to make them even more useful for a newbie. I'll be very happy if someone dismantles it all later and makes it even better.

--Steamy Latte 09:49, 2 November 2007 (PDT)