From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!esquire!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!davidson
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: A hacker by any other name ....
Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.2077
Posted: Fri Jun 11 09:38:05 1982
Received: Sun Jun 13 01:23:05 1982
References: watmath.2566

John Winterton suggests that it is improper for the documentation of
a program to simply be its listing.  I am unclear as to whether he
means the user documentation or the maintainers documentation.  If
the former, then I certainly agree; however, if he means the latter,
then I think that his view is only sometimes correct.  A code of a
good programmer, writing in a decent high level language (e.g., Pascal,
Modula-2, even Ada and LISP [augmented with appropriate macros]) is
self documenting, and has the virtue that it always correctly describes
the current version of the program.

-Greg Davidson