Self-documentation of code

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 15, 2014 11:33 AM EDT
Linux User & Developer; By Richard Hillesley 		Mail this story
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The inadequacy or lack of documentation of software is a recurring issue. This applies just as often to proprietary software as it does to free software. Documentation of code has two main purposes: to make the code readable for other programmers, and to make the code useable. Good documentation of free software is vital for users, and contributing to the documentation (or translation to a minority language) of a free software project is a good way to get involved for those who don’t know where to start, or how to program, and want to know how it’s done. The problem is a shortage of recruits.

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