Re: Trunk still not open

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> Juanma Barranquero writes:
>  > On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> 
> wrote:
>  > 
>  > > It very rare that a person who can code is incapable
>  > > of writing docs to an acceptable level of quality.  It is of course
>  > > common that they have had little practice at it.
>
>  > I'm not bragging; I'm pointing out that I can put words together well
>  > enough to be professionally published. And yet, I *suck* at it, I'm
>  > extremely slow and inefficient doing that work, because of the simple
>  > fact that I *HATE* writing.
>
> Except when posting to mailing lists?<wink/>

   “I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one
   instead.” -- Mark Twain

Documentation is like writing short letters.  There is a similar message
in the joke

    When the head of the experimental physics department approached the
    dean because of funding a particle accelerator, the dean sighed "Why
    can't you be more like the mathematicians?  They just need pen and
    paper and a wastebasket and are busy for years.  And the
    philosophers don't even need a wastebasket."

-- 
David Kastrup