divx4

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:59:12 -0500
kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:

> Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> % Hmm, I'll look at Mplayer then.  I understand almost all of the stuff we
> use is done by people like us in our spare time but it seems the docs or
> at least a decent overview of what a package does and what you need is
> lacking on most things out there - even some of the "professional" ones!% 
> % Docs are NOT optional! <G>.
> 
> Agreed. But, programmers should not be the ones to write the docs.

Very true. OTOH, our company decided to write docs for a bunch of software,
purposely not contacting the programmers. It made for nice sci-fi reading
about what the documenters thought the software 'should' do. Admittedly, an
extreme example.

As a programmer, I would perfer that someone else document the stuff. But I
hate it when features go missing in the docs. Lots of work, and no one knows
it is even there...


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