Once upon a time (;-))

Once upon a time (;-))

Posted Sep 12, 2007 0:14 UTC (Wed) by davecb (subscriber, #1574)
Parent article: LinuxConf.eu: Documentation and user-space API design

When one wanted to provide a chunk of functionality
to Multics, one wrote a white paper arguing its
desirability. This was Good. Then we wrote
tutorial and manual pages, because we were
writing, ayway.

The Unix folks from Bell labs, who worked on
Multics, decide that, when developing Unix,
writing man pages was Almost As Good. As
were tutorials.

All joking aside, how about a requirement that
one write a white paper, a man page, **and** a
tutorial before you can add a new feature
to the Linux or BSD kernel?

--dave

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