Re:Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of software ...
by mannykannot on Tuesday June 18, 2019 @12:26PM
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> Not that documentation is bad but it is rarely correct.
Rarely? I often turn to the documentation to check the capabilities, syntax and semantics of the languages and interfaces that I use. If it were only rarely correct, I would be in trouble.
If you are talking about application code specifically, my experience is that documentation is too rarely present to be an issue.
Rarely? I often turn to the documentation to check the capabilities, syntax and semantics of the languages and interfaces that I use. If it were only rarely correct, I would be in trouble.
If you are talking about application code specifically, my experience is that documentation is too rarely present to be an issue.