Re: Linux is not for consumers!
Incoming from Richard Kimber:
> On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:07:23 -0600
> "Michael Martinell" <mike@dakotasioux.com> wrote:
>
> > That's why the people doing the documentation should be the power-user
> > who is not familiar with every intricate detail, and has had to struggle
> > and learn the system. That is the person who can usually explain things
> > in a
>
> This sounds like an excuse for programmers not to document their programs.
Programmers need no excuse for this. They know how it works. If you
think it needs documentation, go ahead and write it.
> But I feel strongly that to overcome the original point in the thread,
> many app developers need to give more attention to the documentation, and
> indeed the user interface, and a little less to adding that "nice new
> exciting" (and undocumented) feature.
Note the smiley: Go to hell! :-)
If I were being paid to do this kind of thing, my boss might have a
more convincing argument as to why I should document my work.
However, for something I'm giving away for nothing, there's no such
obligation that I can see.
Go join the LDP and fix this apparent deficiency yourself if you think
it's a problem.
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