Added by Geoff Sauer on Apr 28, 2008. Average rating: 3.50/5.00 (n=2, std dev: 0.71)
In the continuing absence of maturity in the software world, it’s the documentation that has to treat the tool-user with respect. Which is a further argument against Knuth’s Literate Programming. Since it’s all too common to see software toolmakers treat tool-users with short shrift, it’s a useful caution to have the ’software is written in one corner and documented in another’.
In the continuing absence of maturity in the software world, it’s the documentation that has to treat the tool-user with respect. Which is a further argument against Knuth’s Literate Programming. Since it’s all too common to see software toolmakers treat tool-users with short shrift, it’s a useful caution to have the ’software is written in one corner and documented in another’.