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From: John the Hamster <hamster@pti-us.com>
Subject: Re: Papers on the Ariane-5 crash and Design by Contract
Date: 1997/03/20
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Nick Leaton wrote:
<<snip discussion of code documentation>>
...
> But lets be practical. No body can sucessfully keep documentation in
> line with code, without errors. The more the code documents itself,
> and in this case I'm referring to assertions the better. Also,
> programmers like programming, not documentation. Documentation is not
> the product! It is an aid to producing product.

Check out literate programming. See the newsgroup 
comp.programming.literate.

Regards,
Steve Furlong