Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"

On 06-04-2025 09:10, mhx wrote:

Documentation is for others :--)

 
"Others". That's a philosophical question. Answering it greatly influences ones view on documentation:
 
"You thought that it could never happen to all the people you became."
 
That's how I view "persons". I assume I'm the same person that went to bed, however, I have no evidence whatsoever that I am. Does a computer, fed with the data his predecessors collected, assume he's the same computer as the ones he replaced?
 
Still, I feel a close connection to the persons that were me before me and the persons that eventually will become me. I don't want to make their work unnecessarily difficult. That's why I document. I've praised them several times - either for making a tutorial for a specific library - or at least leaving an example or demo.
 
That's why I think the Hans Bezemer of yesterday was not only a clever lad, but also a nice guy. ;-)