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Re:Software engineers should write by bbcbasic on Monday December 29, 2014 @06:07PM (#8812323)
I agree. Funny how people worry about documentation going out of date, but not code going out of date.

I guess it is more acceptable to have a bug in the code than a mistake in the documentation.

Re:Software engineers should write by slavik81 on Monday December 29, 2014 @06:22PM (#8812378)
Exactly the opposite. The documentation gets out of date because people update the code without updating the documentation.
Re:Software engineers should write by bbcbasic on Monday December 29, 2014 @10:34PM (#8813184)
Yes that is a problem. However the question is what do you prefer, no documentation, or documentation that may be out of date? As a detective (which let's face it that is what an Enterprise programmer's job is to an extent) it is nice to have some information which you can scrutinize, rather than nothing.