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>>"Producing complete and useful" documentation is a huge amount of work - a nontrivial fraction of writing the software in the first place. this is definitely
by noodle 18y ago
>>"Producing complete and useful" documentation is a huge amount of work - a nontrivial fraction of writing the software in the first place.
this is definitely true, but does that somehow mean that bad documentation should be the norm or otherwise excused?
- gruseom 18y agoNo it doesn't, and my intention is not to make excuses (least of all for MS) - just to point out that the people ordering them to produce this probably don't understand what it is that they're ordering, that the task itself is either unsatisfiable or nearly so, and that it will probably consume orders of magnitude more resources than people expect. It's one of those things where you can't ever be "done" - especially if the other party has an interest in picking holes. Personally, I'm fine with MS having to lie in (or document every molecule) of the bed they made. The sooner we can all move beyond what they did to our industry the better.