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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "The Best Programming Language for the End of the World"
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 20:17:53 +1000
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On 6/04/2025 6:55 pm, Hans Bezemer wrote:
> On 06-04-2025 09:10, mhx wrote:
>> Documentation is for others :--)
> 
> "Others". That's a philosophical question. Answering it greatly influences ones view on documentation:
> 
> "You thought that it could never happen to all the people you became."
> 
> That's how I view "persons". I assume I'm the same person that went to bed, however, I have no evidence whatsoever that I am. Does a computer, fed with the data his predecessors collected, assume he's the same computer as the ones he replaced?
> 
> Still, I feel a close connection to the persons that were me before me and the persons that eventually will become me. I don't want to make their work unnecessarily difficult. That's why I document. I've praised them several times - either for making a tutorial for a specific library - or at least leaving an example or demo.
> 
> That's why I think the Hans Bezemer of yesterday was not only a clever lad, but also a nice guy. ;-)

So they do it for the praise?  Typical ;-)