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> I'm all for good documentation, but why embed it in the source code? Why not have good documentation files that stand alone?

It usually ends up out of sync with the code almost immediately. And there is a very good chance of the documentation being lost, buried in some some enterprise document management system. Sometimes I feel like Gandalf reading through stacks of scrolls trying to find thousand year old references to magical rings.




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