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> The downside of working with open source software is that documentation is horrid. As the author states, man-hours are finite, and people who write OSS typica
by josephlord 14y ago
> The downside of working with open source software is that documentation is horrid. As the author states, man-hours are finite, and people who write OSS typically don't want to spend their finite hours documenting their code.
Not universally true (although it probably is true in most cases). PostgreSQL has great docs and I've heard good things about Open BSD although I haven't looked myself.
- eric-hu 14y agoYes, I agree. I made sure to include 'typically' in my statement because I do see exceptions. Backbone.js has excellent documentation, as does Coffeescript and Underscore.js