[OT] of [OT] I am a developer and I hate documentation

[Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d]

Am Fri, 19 Aug 2016 07:34:51 -0700
schrieb "H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d"
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com>:

> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 10:50:20AM +0000, Chris via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > On Thursday, 18 August 2016 at 17:23:09 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:  
> > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 04:56:32PM +0000, ketmar via Digitalmars-d
> > > wrote:  
> > > > On Thursday, 18 August 2016 at 16:17:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:  
> > > > > if the stub reads:  
> > > > > > 	/**  
> > > > > 	 * THE PROGRAMMER WAS TOO LAZY TO FILL THIS IN
> > > > > 	 * Params:
> > > > > 	 *	x = THE PROGRAMMER WAS TOO LAZY TO FILL THIS IN
> > > > > 	 *	y = THE PROGRAMMER WAS TOO LAZY TO FILL THIS IN
> > > > > 	 * Returns: THE PROGRAMMER WAS TOO LAZY TO FILL THIS IN
> > > > > 	 */
> > > > > 	int myFunc(int x, int y) { ... }  
> > > > > > :-P  
> > > > i assure you that programmers will still be too lazy to fill the
> > > > docs. but they *will* spend alot of time rebuilding (or
> > > > hex-editing if there is no source) their IDE to replace the
> > > > message.  
> > > 
> > > Haha, too true!
> > > 
> > > 
> > > T  
> > 
> > It is true. After all, it's all about writing code and hacking. "Look
> > now it says 'THE PROGRAMMER IS COOL'! It only took me 3 hours to
> > figure out how to replace the message. I'll write a blog about it! =>
> > reddit => flame war => please mark as OT ..."  
> [...]
> 
> And if the pro-doc-ers are equally "cool", there would be an arms race
> where the stub is encrypted with strong encryption to prevent tampering,
> and the programmers would figure out ways of bypassing it, and develop
> an entire subculture of IDE-cracking and doc avoidance. :-P
> 
> 
> T
> 

Guys if you have too much free time, go fix some compiler
bugs. :D

-- 
Marco