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Quotes of the week - all about documentation

Quotes of the week - all about documentation

Posted Dec 12, 2008 20:00 UTC (Fri) by droundy (subscriber, #4559)
In reply to: Quotes of the week - all about documentation by iabervon
Parent article: Quotes of the week - all about documentation

Of course, the best documentation is generally not written by the author of the code, but by the first person to have problems understanding it and then figure it out.

And the worst documentation is written by the first person have problems understanding the code, and try to figure it out, but fail... which I've seen happen on more than one occasion with code I wrote. :(


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