> Nobody's business was ever ruined because of bad documentation, sadly. Maybe not ruined, but certainly severely hampered. I worked for several months with an

> Nobody's business was ever ruined because of bad documentation, sadly. Maybe not ruined, but certainly severely hampered. I worked for several months with an original author of a 1M LOC application, and he was let go because the company was too cheap to re-up his contract. The documentation in that time was barely passable and it took many months of tweaking and breaking things just to get back to the point of becoming productive again. No one had a well-documented procedure on how to even compile the code until I decided to set my tasks aside(to my own schedule's detriment) so I could document all the steps and dependencies along the way. Luckily for them the company was well established and could afford the wait, others may not have that luxury.