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Same for all of the GNU software distribution, Sun Microsystems’ products, and SGI’s. Even MSDN has had pretty good documentation.

I miss the days when I could understand how something worked just by reading the official documentation first.

To this day, in my open source projects, I do not accept contributions that lack either documentation updates or test cases.




> I miss the days when I could understand how something worked just by reading the official documentation first.

This is probably why I don’t read much documentation when I’m working with a library, et al. Never thought about it until I read the parent




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