Think about it this way: how well does a telephone directory describe a town?
When I am looking at the documentation for a piece of computer software, sometimes I am looking for a directory. I really do just want to know where a particular place or thing is. But... not most of the time. In fact, almost never. No.
What I really want is: to read the original developer's thoughts. I want to get a glimpse of her intent when she designed and then wrote that particular piece of code. Truly, the final software is very-much an expression of that, and this is something that no amount of computer-generated recyclables will tell me.
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