From: Stephen Kellett <snail@...>
Date: 2005-04-28T00:59:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Comments Are More Important Than Code

In message <d4o6vp$qj2$4@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>, Tom Ayerst 
<twa@post.com> writes
>"I discard the radical position taken by proponents of extreme 
>programming (XP) to get rid of 'unnecessary' documentation."
>
>To which you have to ask, "Why would you want to write unnecessary 
>documentation? surely you have better things to do, like write 
>necessary documentation?".

That is a straw man, removing the quotes around the word unnecessary to 
change the meaning. Clearly Raskin doesn't agree that it is unnecessary, 
if he did he wouldn't have put the word in quotes.

I agree with your comment about "what comments are for".

Stephen
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