Documentation?

Thomas Dickey dickey at his.com
Wed Apr 8 02:57:46 PDT 2009


On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> Patrick O'Donnell wrote:
>> Someone offered up www.x.org/docs, which may be fine for X Window
>> System developers, but is not what most application programmers would
>> call documentation.
>
> There's also http://www.x.org/wiki/Documentation which isn't much better,
> but is a little more friendly than a list of directory names.

I've found that when documenting things (whether I wrote the code, or am 
maintaining it), I find errors (in the code) and omissions.  Lacking 
documentation for other people's code, I have to assume the same problems 
apply to those as well.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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