On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:15:24 -0700 "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > This sounds like an excuse for programmers not to document their > > programs. > > Programmers need no excuse for this. They know how it works. If you > think it needs documentation, go ahead and write it. Aren't you missing the point that you need to understand it before you can document it, and that in many cases understanding does not come without documentation. > If I were being paid to do this kind of thing, my boss might have a > more convincing argument as to why I should document my work. > However, for something I'm giving away for nothing, there's no such > obligation that I can see. Obligation? What about a sense of pride in having done something well? Of course, if you're just writing a program for your own personal use, and you allow others to use it freely if they can understand it, without any involvement from you, fine, but that's not the kind of system that the envisaged consumers can cope with. And I'm not convinced that that really is the underlying philosophy of Linux, which seems to be implicit in what you say. If you're a developer, your attitude perhaps goes some way to explain why Linux is not for consumers. - Richard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
