On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 16:00 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 22 May 2009 14:19:08 -0430 > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > My view is that if the programmer can't write a lucid description of > > what his stuff does, it means he doesn't really understand it himself. > > I wouldn't go that far. Writing (especially in that ridiculous language > known as English by Americans and American by all other English speakers) > can be a major challenge :-). If it were easy there wouldn't be any point in this discussion (er ...), but my point was that *in broad terms* a good programmer will take the trouble and a poor one won't bother. > But I will say that developers who don't even make the slightest > attempt to document their work are saying (to me anyway): "We > don't want anyone to use this, that's why we keep it a secret." Agreed. poc -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
