Re:We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom ...
by crazygringo on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:01PM
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> Humans know exactly what parts went into it and how it works. Why must wisdom always be squeezed out of a rock?
Partly, because so many developers famously hate writing documentation and hate commenting their code.
If developers followed Donald Knuth's Literate Programming [1] then it would be a big improvement.
People rely on a lot of "tribal knowledge" without ever bothering to write it down, and out of all the fields, software development seems to be particularly notorious for its anti-documentation bias.
Partly, because so many developers famously hate writing documentation and hate commenting their code.
If developers followed Donald Knuth's Literate Programming [1] then it would be a big improvement.
People rely on a lot of "tribal knowledge" without ever bothering to write it down, and out of all the fields, software development seems to be particularly notorious for its anti-documentation bias.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming