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Re:Stop Googling by kogir on Thursday October 14, 2010 @10:44AM (#1791027)
Perhaps I'm old school, but I view undocumented functionality as something that may not always be there or behave the same in future releases. While I can deal with that since it's open source, it doesn't mean I want to. Libraries with good documentation are frequently much safer bets, and I've found good documentation is a great indicator of the maturity and stability of the project.

Example: How many people would use Linux without the man pages?

Re:Stop Googling by jnunemaker on Thursday October 14, 2010 @10:50AM (#1791049)
I view untested functionality that way but not undocumented. That said, you are right, documentation is very important.
Re:Stop Googling by kenjackson on Thursday October 14, 2010 @11:44AM (#1791295)
I'm not sure how you can really test w/o documentation. How do I know the test is testing the correct thing w/o the docs? I'm almost more worried about code with unit tests, but not docs, as I suspect a developer who just attended the latest "Cool Coding Trends Camp", rather than someone who has built and maintained a lot of code.