> The best software is nothing without documentation You know, it’s not enough to restate your own points, you have to read and absorb the things other people

> The best software is nothing without documentation You know, it’s not enough to restate your own points, you have to read and absorb the things other people are saying. Once again, “Working software over documentation” does not mean “Working software instead of documentation.” It means that working software is more important than documentation, but both can be important. And it can be that documentation exists to make the software work. If I said “Working software over software patterns,” that wouldn’t mean “Never, ever, ever use the Command Pattern, or Adaptors, or a Facade.” It just means that you use those things to make the software work. And if they are essential to making the software work, they are essential. So you tell me that software is nothing without documentation, and I happen to agree. But software is also nothing without binaries. But that doesn’t mean “binaries over working software.” It just means, “build binaries as part of working software."