Re: running an external app

FROM : Andy Lee
DATE : Tue May 27 23:56:08 2008

No worries.  I both agree and disagree with almost everyone who's been 
on this discussion, so I can get confused myself about who said what. :)

--Andy
(this doesn't count as re-joining the discussion)


On May 27, 2008, at 5:37 PM, Peter Duniho wrote:

>> Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 16:48:23 -0400
>> From: Andy Lee <<email_removed>>
>>
>> On May 27, 2008, at 4:15 PM, Peter Duniho wrote:

>>>> Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 14:57:09 -0400
>>>> From: Andy Lee <<email_removed>>
>>>>
>>>> Also, when we *do* ask to see people's code (which also happens), 
>>>> it's
>>>> not because the code is the best way to express their intentions.
>>>> It's because their code is not *fulfilling* their intentions. 
>>>> Not at
>>>> all the same as code snippets in documentation.

>>>
>>> Au contraire!
>>>
>>> You are making the incorrect assumption that the documentation does
>>> a 100% correct job of conveying intentions to every person who may
>>> read it.

>>
>> I have no idea where you get this.

>
> My apologies if I've misinterpreted what you wrote.  I certainly 
> know how that feels.
>
> My response was based on the synthesis of the points to which you 
> were responding and your own statement that the scenario of using 
> code as a communications tool when people are asking questions is 
> "not at all the same as code snippets in documentation".
>
> If you agree with me that the documentation can in fact benefit from 
> the use of code snippets as a form of elaboration in the API 
> reference, then obviously I misunderstood.
>
> Pete
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