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Documentation is not generally useless. Most code is used far longer than it's intended life, most code is read far more often than it's changed, and documentat
by billytetrud 5y ago
Documentation is not generally useless. Most code is used far longer than it's intended life, most code is read far more often than it's changed, and documentation can save literally hours and days of struggle. Word of mouth knowledge transfer is abysmal at keeping critical knowledge alive. Nobody ever knows anything about legacy code, and it's because no one wrote documentation. Please stop telling people documentation isn't important
- enraged_camel 5y agoI do agree that code is read more than it is written. At the same time, there's the adage: "treat your data as permanent, and your code as transitory."