Am 2016-04-08 um 17:35 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: > Thinking that you start without reading any form of documentation is an attitude which I highly condemn.
I would love to read documentations but very often there is none (or even worse it is wrong, outdated, confusing and incomplete). When asking for documentation here I am often answered: Check the code. > Unfortunately, this attitude seems typical for IT. It has evolved into this. When I started with Turbo Pascal very excellent documentation was wide spread. Today with fast version cycling it seems that nobody has the time for it anymore or (even worse) not even has the knowledge about how things exactly behave. So we are all left to use trial and error which is realy sad. > If NASA or Airbus or Boeing engineers would use that approach, I guess a lot of rockets, planes and whatnot would fall on our heads. > I am glad they do not seem to have this attitude. I am not sure that they do not have it. I saw a report on TV about a test flight of the A380 some years ago where technicians were wondering, why the air craft computer was pumping fuel from one tank to the other in a certain flight situation. It seemed they needed a lot of time to find it out. I would have expected that the complexity was not driven to a point where even the engineers do not fully understand what they have built. Could be that we just had a lot of luck. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
