Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 12:03:59 -0500 From: Constantine Shkolny <stan@osgroup.com> To: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Microsoft performance (was: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c)) Message-ID: <01BEBFCB.F95F6F00.stan@osgroup.com>
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On Saturday, June 26, 1999 8:08 AM, Nick Hibma [SMTP:hibma@skylink.it] wrote: > > Programmers need documentation too. > > And they are going to scream like mad if there isn't any. But in the end > they start reading the code anyway, even if there is docu, because they > don't trust anything but their own eyes and brain. > > It's all documented in C anyway. I've come to understanding that lack of documentation is probably one of the factors that keep the system healthy, because it keeps the unskilled people away. I don't know whether it's true but I read in books that reading code is one of the methods to learn programming. Since FreeBSD does ship with source code, docs are not necessary. NT ships with poorly written docs instead, and, that is what kills it all the time, despite of its perfect design that I really like. People write NT drivers without full understanding what is going on, so they destabilize the system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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