RE: Professional respect

["Douglas S. Bailey (AL)" <dbailey -at- commandalkon -dot- com>]

> "Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, it
> should be hard
> to understand."
> 	~Slogan button seen at a techie convention

I would have laughed in the face of anyone wearing that button.  For a
programmer, creating a document that's hard to understand *is easy*.  Thus,
it would NEVER be hard for them to write.  It would be easy to write a doc
that cannot be understood, and it would be hard for a good writer to write a
document that is hard to understand, but it would be easy for a bad writer
to write a document that is hard to understand:  all he need do is make sure
HE understands what he's written.

Or am I being too anal, since it was just a joke.  (?)

--Doug


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