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I would remark here that The Mythical Man-Month did give a page or two to documentation. My copy seems to be out on loan, but as I recall the section included a
by cafard 4y ago
I would remark here that The Mythical Man-Month did give a page or two to documentation. My copy seems to be out on loan, but as I recall the section included a figure showing the documentation for a sort function, perhaps 25 lines or so.
- InitialLastName 4y ago> My copy seems to be out on loan, Drifting off-topic, but I wonder how close to the top of the list TMMM is for "on loan" duty cycle in the software world. My copy also seems to be persistently in someone else's hands.
- Ma8ee 4y agoIf I remember correctly, Brooks experience was with assembler, which might require some more documentation than modern Java or Python.
- cafard 4y agoI think that the example was in PL/1.