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

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

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 ..."

But it is like everything else: nice to have, even if you don't 
use it _all the time_.