Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:
> that people don't want to write the documentation at first. 

Generally speaking, people who hack code don't write the documentation 
before the code. And once the code is written, there's no benefit to the 
author to write the documentation.

The real problem is that most hackware is written by people who don't know 
what they want. They don't figure out what they want to code to do before 
they write the code.

Me, I write the documentation *first*. That way, I know when I'm done. If 
it's small enough that I don't do that, it's small enough that you don't 
need documentation.   But even that little 50-line DF3 converter program I 
posted here, I wrote the help message first.  I can't imagine how I could be 
productive writing code if I don't know what I want it to do when I'm done.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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