POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Open Source Documentation : Re: Open Source Documentation Server Time
6 Sep 2024 07:15:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Open Source Documentation  
From: Mike Hough
Date: 7 Feb 2009 01:19:21
Message: <498d27e9@news.povray.org>
Now that you got a feel for the program, you might appreciate this

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Blender

Best uncylopedia entry ever.

"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
news:498cdae4$1@news.povray.org...
> You gotta love some of the open source documentation out there.  I'm 
> learning Blender right now, and some of the docs are kind of amusing. 
> (They'd be downright annoying if it was commercial software, mind.)
> Makes you appreciate POV-Ray docs.
>
> """
> I don't know what this parameter does, but I've played around with it and 
> gotten pictures like this...
> """
> I gotta wonder who would implement some change and not at least leave a 
> note that says what the change is supposed to do.
>
>
> Another classic favorite:
> """
> The XYZ parameter replaces the old PDQ technique, making it faster and 
> easier to get the same results."
> """
> ... which is great, if you've been using the software long enough to know 
> what the PDQ technique was supposed to do. At least leave the 
> documentation in for PDQ. :-)
>
>
> I know most programmers don't like to write documentation, but it's always 
> a little jarring to me to run across something like that.
>
> -- 
>   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
>   "Ouch ouch ouch!"
>   "What's wrong? Noodles too hot?"
>   "No, I have Chopstick Tunnel Syndrome."


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