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From: greg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Greg Laskin)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: coding style, documentation, etc...
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Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 22:20:33 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 17 22:20:33 1987
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In article <612@nonvon.UUCP> mc68020@nonvon.UUCP (mc68020) writes:
>I point out,
>accurately, if untactfully, that the news software is essentially 
>undocumented, and that the myriad "patches" and changes to it have made it
>virtually unnavigable.  My reference to "those who've been playing with it
>for years" is not an attack...it is simply an observation that they are 
>the only persons with any hope of comprehending the internal workings of
>the package.
>

I've had no problems comprehending the internal workings of the package
and I have not been playing with it for years.  The internal workings
might be more comprehensible to those with non-trivial exposure to
Unix and C than to those with little experience.

You are entitled to what you pay for.  How much are you willing to
pay for news software documented to your standards?  Complaining is
always easy.  The current news software appears to adequately serve
the market for which it was intended.

I would be happy to fully document the news software for you if you
would be willing to pay my normal consulting rates.  You could then
sell the documentation to anyone who wanted it to defray your costs.
Rick might also be willing to make the same deal.

-- 
Greg Laskin   
"When everybody's talking and nobody's listening, how can we decide?"
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