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It is certainly true that documenting is a unpleasant woman. At least he lived long enough to realize that documenting was important.

No, they don't ;-). They know what they are good at.

I'm puzzled by the last one. The smart people I know begged to have edge cases tested. That way they got to debug the really bizarre. Code documentation was a wearying chore. Some people could do it well. Most couldn't. That's why we hired writers. They would nag us and then, somehow, a miracle happened and quality, correct docs would go out.

That's childish, especially getting peeed about the testing part. I can't think of anybody in the -10 group who got peeed when somebody tested...I mean because they tested. There was behaviour that did pee them off. Like doing it over and over and over.

But this is all a wase of time. I realize these people exist but I consider them production preventers.

As for Newton's time, I don't know the context. For instance, there are corporations whose model is to allow the behavior you described above. Is it possible that was the usual working environment in those times? I remember a chemist getting beheaded because some less brilliant chemist was jealous. That happens unless the really productive types are guarded.

BAH