Documentation blues
Ben Finney
bignose@zip.com.au
Tue Jun 24 03:29:02 2003
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On 23-Jun-2003, Robin Lynn Frank wrote:
> There must be some law I am unaware of that documentation must be as
> tedious as possible
Does it look like this?
Frank's Law of Documentation:
Documentation is either written by programmers who are too close to
the program to know how to tell a user about it, or written by people
who had no documentation and did everything the hard way.
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