[MUD-Dev] Re: MUD Design doc (long)

[J C Lawrence <claw#under,engr.sgi.com>]

On Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:41:22 -0500 
Benjamin D Wiechel<strycher#toast,net> wrote:

> IIRC, one of JCL's responses to this thread pointed out that
> getting programmers to document in the code, much less to write
> actual external documentation, and then to also convince them to
> keep it updated, is quite a daunting task.  It may be an
> impossible one.

Let's just say that there is a commercial OS out there in whose
source I made the following comment (faithfully checked in, thru
code review etc):

  /* I don't know what this code does, but I do know that it doesn't
do what the above comment says it does.  Exercise caution. */

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