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Subject: Real Programmers... (defending poorly documented LISP)
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Date: Sat, 20-Aug-83 11:59:00 EDT
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ring.
    	This doc is totally wrong.  Comments, etc to....

    and then later one of the options had the explanation

    	This is strange, I'm not sure what it really does.

    )

Actually, this is dependant on what kind of program you are talking
about. Several times, I've produce a quick hack for in-house use
(the kind of use where you can TELL the person how to use it, and
where the bugs are), just to have a customer beg for it on hands
and knees. In some ways, the LISP-using community is the biggest beta-test
site in the world. Of course, there are real released packages, and
they have documentation and readable code (we have a software review
committee to make sure). 

Of course, even the worst LISP code usually has self-documenting
symbol and function names. 
						James
						LMI