Re: Do have programs have poor documentation?
Eike Lantzsch schreef op 01-01-2017 17:58:
Interestingly enough the motto of 33. Chaos Communication Congress in
Hamburg
was: "Works for me". They aimed at getting programmers out of their
lethargy
because their software not only has to "work for them" but also for
everybody
else. An interesting write-up is here:
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/33C3-Hacker-greifen-nach-der-grossen-politischen-Nummer-3579778.html?wt_mc=rss.ho.beitrag.rdf
It translates terrible to Dutch and I wish I could stil read German. The
problem with the web these days is that the main language you already
use (which for me would be English, like) improves while everything else
falls.
Someone commented here about the education system for languages in the
Netherlands?
I feel nothing much has changed and we still learn English, German and
French in school. There is just no longer any opportunity to make use of
it unless you are: on holiday or living in the east of the Netherlands
(Germany). My German reading skills are now so poor even though I have
had 6 years of formal education in it, that reading it takes too much
trouble if it is longer than a paragraph and I prefer to use Google
Translate to just scan the text.
"Nun lautet das Kongressmotto "Works for me", was für eine unter
Software-Entwicklern verbreitete egozentrische Haltung stehen soll, dass
man selbst von einem technischen Fehler nicht betroffen sei und es sich
dabei folglich um ein Problem anderer Leute handle."
I wish it would be possible to talk to more reasonable people like that.
Linux has been for me an advent in unreasonability lately. Most people
engaging in Linux only try to promote it. Of course what they mean is
the attitude of the open source developer.
Regardless on the topic of documentation.
Many programmers simply lack the ability to still look at their program
from the outside.
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