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