On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 10:25:36 -0500, Mike wrote:
>>  Why do patch writers document their patches so poorly when the bother
>> documenting them at all ?
>
>The program knows what to do.  :)
>
>With the one I just released, I was up all night putting it together and
>had to make a new splash screen and all that other stuff then put the
>files together and when it came time to write the docs, I was pretty
>spent.  I was also nervous about telling people what to try because I
>wasn't sure if everything was working.  Heh heh.

That's my take, too.  I end up having something I could ship, if I had
documentation, but I don't feel like doing the docs and I end up putting
them off for weeks.  On the other hand, I don't feel right about releasing
undocumented software.

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