Moving back to .NET

[Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 20:01:18 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 16:15:45 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
> wrote:
>> Where I think we don't do such a good job is curating such 
>> knowledge and presenting it in a form that's easy to digest 
>> for newcomers.  That's also a function of the kinds of people 
>> that are here, because creative people don't like doing boring 
>> things like write documentation.  (And they have other 
>> higher-valued demands on their time).  I don't know what the 
>> answer is, but we will have to find one over time.
>
> BTW I don't get the documentation problem. I often catch myself 
> admiring my code, yeah I do a good job writing it, and by 
> writing docs I give it credit for its beauty, I brag about 
> great job I did. Like... "look there was this problem and I 
> solved it in the most elegant way possible, see how:... and it 
> does this and that because it's the best thing to do here, and 
> it doesn't do that because it's not good to do it here, and it 
> has this little feature that makes it better than without it 
> and is really helpful"

> So it feels like people don't want to write docs because they 
> think they wrote a crappy code and hence can't give it credit, 
> they are ashamed to speak about it.

I don't think that's it.  A certain part of the population is 
endogenously motivated.  Your emotions are organised towards the 
problem domain - the thing in itself - rather than social 
factors.  So when you have done what you wanted to the standard 
you want, you have your fix and getting others to notice may not 
be in itself gratifying.  This is a minority makeup, but an 
important one for various reasons.