Re: Code comments as Documentation

Subject: Re: Code comments as Documentation
From: John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 11:43:17 -0700 (PDT)


Why not make the text changes in the code yourself?

--- jsokohl -at- mac -dot- com wrote:

> My conern is in what to do with the doc I receive. Do I edit
> it to make the often obtuse and sometime grammatically
> incorrect developer-originating comments comprehensible, or
> do I let sleeping code comments lie?
> * If I edit them, then they immediately differ from what's
> in the code.
> * If I ask 'em to add the edited text back into their code,
> they do double work (and they're already frightfully resentful
> of having to do documentation of their code in the first
> place--this dev environment's
> rampant with the "just read the damn code" mentality).


=====
John Posada
Senior Technical Writer



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