8 Larry Wall Quotes on Documentation

Larry Wall quotes on documentation

14. It's documented in The Book, somewhere...

15. It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)

17. Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality... :-)

49. If I don't document something, it's usually either for a good reason, or a bad reason. In this case it's a good reason. :-)

99. The following two statements are usually both true: There's not enough documentation. There's too much documentation.

163. I suppose one could claim that an undocumented feature has no semantics. :-(

239. #define SIGILL 6 /* blech */

250. echo $package has manual pages available in source form. echo 'However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you.