RE: Bad documentation insanity of the day

["Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>]

Great reference! One of the comments included this gem:

"A missing handrail is safer than a rickety one, because if there's no
handrail you keep away from the edge."

It's a fine metaphor for Bertrand Meyer's maxim: "Incorrect
documentation is often worse than no documentation."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Borokowski
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:44 PM
> To: techwr-l
> Subject: Bad documentation insanity of the day
> 
> When Andy G opened up libsymblogy.h (sic), he was relieved. 
> Finally, some documentation! Of course, upon further 
> inspection, Andy realized that the comments didn't quite 
> explain how the code works, how it interfaces with other 
> modules, or even why it uses certain magic numbers like -13. 
> Instead, every function had a comment just as hyperverbose 
> and vapid as this...
> 

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