Priority: Documentation, Subject: Patterns, Language: Perl,
Status: Failure  Posted 15 Nov 2002 at 00:08 UTC by scrottie
Share This  Projects I work on are universally doomed to
failure. Every company I work for goes out of business (note:
shortsell Motorola). Failure doesn't happen in the mode one
would ever suspect, which is what makes this interesting. The
code is always written in a timely manner and debugged. Perhaps
I'm being premature, and I'm certainly venting, but I think its
curious to see how a free documentation effort can fail, joining
the ranks of commercial software development efforts and every
other sort of project. Deaths of past projects and companies are
a different story and one less relevant to Free Software
development. This is about failing to write documentation.   The
last half of the work always takes twice as long. Apply rule
recursively. Being unemployed for 1.5 years in one of the worst
job markets in the US, I've had a lot of time on my hands. For
0.5 years of that, my primary p