Re: [Syllable-developer] Re: AtheDocs

[Brent P. N. <me...@ot...>]

Bram Van Dam wrote:
> At 20:13 31/10/2003, Brent wrote:
>>Developers are famous for being uninterested in writing documentation.
>> It
>>strikes me that any complexity in writing that documentation will prevent
>>even more documentation from being written.
>
> Developers should learn to write documentation. I don't care how, but they
> should write a piece of documentation nonetheless.

Does this work in practice?  That is, if we simply tell developers that
they should learn to write documentation, will that make them do it?

I agree that developers should.  But my desire doesn't solve the tendency
of developers to avoid writing documentation.

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