Am Dienstag, 25. April 2006 01:36 schrieb Carlos E. R.: > The Monday 2006-04-24 at 16:05 +0200, houghi wrote: > > These are all things you need to decide for yourself. You said that there > > were programs that lacked documentation. Start there. As you are on > > dialup, use a package that is available on your distro already. > > Impossible. You need the sources, and they are not included, you have to > downloaded them.
You should write the documentation from the original specifications, not from the source code, same as writing test harnesses and test scripts. If you write from the specification, you are documenting what the program *should* do, which acts as a good double check that the code is doing what *it* should. Most of the professional documentors I've worked with wouldn't have a clue where to start if you gave them source code, but give them an executable to play with and a RUP, CACI etc. standard specification and they are happy little bees and will knock up documentation in no time... Dave -- "I got to go figure," the tenant said. "We all got to figure. There's some way to stop this. It's not like lightning or earthquakes. We've got a bad thing made by men, and by God that's something we can change." - The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
