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Subject: Re: Bad programming practices: View from the other side...
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Date: 17 Feb 90 07:00:55 GMT
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>In article <"90-02-14-17:50:45.32*UK4H"@DKAUNI2.BITNET>, UK4H@DKAUNI2.BITNET
>("JAE ", Juergen A. Erhard) writes:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> especially you at CBM...
>> Harald reminded me of an idea that I had yesterday:
>> Ain't it possible to make autodocs and such stuff available on the net
>> (FTP or some such...)???

Hmmm.. usually I would say "yeah , right , give away a saleable product!" ,
but since these files are already in text form who knows ?????

>> Or do you try to get as rich as Midas selling those RKM's (;-)). If so,

I doubt it seriously , they make a profit I am sure --- wich IS what the
company is there for!

Face facts gang ... how many manuals did IBM give away free ??? (Technical) -
- how much effort did they even put into SELLING THEM ??  -- FOr a
reasonable price , I can have REAL LIVE C-A OFFICIAL DOCS .. in one place,
fromn one publisher , with all the right info.   

By contrast , on my PC stuff I buy a 29.00$ book because there is one good
CHAPTER that is not duplicating what all my other books say.

>> you are at least partly to blame for misbehaved software...

WRONG. The only person ever to blame for bad programming is the programmer.
Too bad if you dont get free documentation on all the features.  Granted ,
multi-lingual books SHOULD be made available ... but we dont have multi-
lingual C (or do we????) ...... but dont try and blame C-A because you
evaded the OS.

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