Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!igor!rutabaga!jls From: jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 02:57:53 GMT References: <20106@alice.att.com> <1991Mar26.191259.14470@i88.isc.com> <27F4D4BE.716@tct.uucp> Sender: news@Rational.COM Lines: 12 >Jim, any tool *must* be evaluated without reference to the milieu from >which it sprang. To do otherwise is to discard ideas because of the >people espousing them, which is a truly close-minded course. Spurious in the extreme. If the only people using a tool are incompetent, then what does it matter if the tool itself is value-neutral? After all, shouldn't one judge a tool by the quality of the work produced through its use? How else, in fact, WOULD you judge a tool? -- ***** DISCLAIMER: The opinions expressed herein are my own, except in the realm of software engineering, in which case I've borrowed them from incredibly smart people.