[opensolaris-summit] My comments (very subjective) on proposed Summit topics

[John Plocher]

Philip Brown wrote:
> But they are not "just as important as the code".

In my experience, the act of asking a developer to articulate what exactly
their code/program/feature is intended to do (versus what it actually does
or how it happens to be implemented today...) invariably causes the developer
to produce a better program.

Whether this is done at the level of ARC-itectural review or as part of
writing the man pages or configuration docs, it /is/ an integral part of
software /engineering/.  Without this focus on intent, all you have is
random hacking, which is far less interesting to this community.

   -John