Larry Wall Quotes on Documentation

8 quotes

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

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

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

  4. 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. :-)

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

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

  7. #define SIGILL 6 /* blech */

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

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