[fpc-pascal] *** GMX Spamverdacht *** Re: Please someone explain this to me

Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Sun Feb 14 12:42:02 CET 2016


Am 2016-02-14 um 12:28 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt:
 > There is a difference between learning the language, which implies knowing
 > what routines are available to you, and understanding how a particular routine works in detail. The latter requires you to study the source code.
 > For the former, you don't need the details: the documentation is the better
 > alternative.

Here we differ:
I expect that a documentation *fully* explains
a behaviour of a certain function (or something else),
not just some part of it.

It's not neccessary to know *how* things are coded but
the underlying idea and what the programmer can rely on.
The code can even differ from the documenation in case of bugs!
So what does it help to look into the code?

If a documenation satisfies the above requirement then
there is no need to look into the code *in any case*.




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