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Whew, there certainly is so much difference in documentation levels of open source libraries :)

For example, Gnu SASL library documentation is comprehensive and serves almost as an introduction to the subject itself. It teaches not only the use of the library, but the principles of SASL.

I kind of like the Drupal architecture, and anything seems to be malleable by writing a few short hook functions.

The documentation, even of core modules, is quite abysmal. Unless you already know how things work, finding out the parameters, their use, not to speak of reasonable usage, has a large fraction of guesswork. I have gotten used to the habit of googling any functions and features of any programming language that happens to be at my screen at any time, and usually some of the first-pagers has a clear answer.

I was looking at my own computer code and found this valuable piece of commentary. Several cups of tea have surely been consumed before writing this.

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// now we know it is IPv4
struct sockaddr_in *sa_in_ptr = (struct sockaddr_in *)&addr;