Funny quote

[Jonathan Ellis]

Charles Curley wrote:
> On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 04:10:53PM -0600, Sasha Pachev wrote:
>> Source code is the ultimate documentation.
> 
> Not funny in the least.
> 
> Obviously you've never had to write programmer doc for a large,
> complex OS by deciphering the source without reference to design
> documents, and where the comments were few, far between, and often
> wrong.

I thought he meant it was funny b/c it's such an oversimplification of 
reality.  But then, I remembered people who seriously believe that the 
source is all you need -- most notably some XP advocates -- so I wasn't 
really sure...  (As an aside, if you look at the JUnit source code, 
written by some of the most famous of these advocates, you will quickly 
realize that there are times the source alone is woefully inadequate. :)

-Jonathan