Dave Tweed wrote:
>> > When I was at the uni, a teacher was refering to us, the students.
>> > He said, engineers are like dogs. We have an intelligent look on our
>> > faces and seem to understand what we are told. We only can't express
>> > ourselves :)
>>
>> That's a lame excuse. Expressing yourself is part of the job.
>
> In fact it *is* the job. The only end product of any engineering process
> that matters is the documentation (including source code and hardware
> diagrams). It's amazing how many "engineers" lose sight of that fact.
> Activities such as building prototypes, debugging, etc. are simply an aid
> to producing good documentation.
>
> If someone else can't easily produce, apply and/or maintain the product in
> question based on your documentation, then you've failed as an engineer.

Dave -- if you were right, I would agree with you. :)

The only end product that matters, is the end product.

I don't think I've ever heard anybody refer to source code as 
"documentation".

Vitaliy 

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