On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:21:20PM -0600, Terry Hancock wrote: > > The people who know a program best are the ones who work > on its internals. No one else can write documentation like the > guy who built the thing in the first place. Failing that, you can > have someone step in and write it, yes. But it'll never be as > accurate as you'd like, nor as up-to-date.
This is something of a fallacy. In some cases the guy that wrote it is the _last_ guy you want documenting it. They may take certain items/features for granted because they have become second nature to them. A good compromise is a collaborative effort where a user (or someone else) of the software/product creates the documentation using the original author as a resource. This way you get an outside point of view. -- Jamin W. Collins Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. --Aldous Huxley, "Proper Studies", 1927 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
