Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Maren Purves <[email protected]> · Tue, 31 Mar 1998 11:08:52 -1000

Arun S, Bommannavar wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 1998 13:36:05 -0700, Rozelle Wright wrote:
> >> From [email protected] Tue Mar 31 12:28 MST 1998
> >> You know . . . if people documented  and posted the info on all the various
> >> small widgets and snippets of code and routines that get created, the rest
> >> of the known universe would not have to dig through source code to try to
> >> find out how to use them . . . and a lot of the messages posted to these
> >> lists might just vanish.
> >>
> >> Wonder just how much of everyone time has been spend trying to figure out
> >> what all this stuff does and how it is supposed to work for themselves since
> >> there seems to be no other way to obtain the required information.
> >>
> >Hi Me,
> >Sorting through documentation is sometimes a lot harder than sorting through
> >the code.  At least with code you know what part of the system
> >you should look at and you are sure it is up to date.
> 
>         I guess "Me" was speaking "in general" and not specifically
> about "CA Server ". And I agree with "Me".

Hi all,

must say I agree with Rozelle here. Documentation is hardly ever up to 
date, that's one, and then: I can grep code, most documentation I 
cannot. Sometimes one needs to find things of which one doesn't know
where to look.

My $0.02,

Maren

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System