From: utzoo!utcsrgv!burt
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: Re: A hacker by any other name
Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.388
Posted: Mon Jun 14 15:18:22 1982
Received: Mon Jun 14 17:28:14 1982

    Greg Davidson argues that the code for a good program should be
self-documenting.  Perhaps this is true for programs, but it is not
true for bigger things (systems).  The poor maintainer of systems
needs all the help he can get to understand his charge, and a one metre
(3 foot) pile of listings is rarely enough.
    (If any of you have good ideas on what sort of help maintenance
programmers *do* need, I would be interested in hearing them.)

			Burt Patkau
			...!decvax!utzoo!utcsrgv!burt