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Documentation standards or guidelines?
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Does anyone care to share their suggestions for documentation?I'm asking because I recently had to change a program I wrote more than five years ago. I'd always thought that I've done a good job of…Continue
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Adam Davis Apr 11, 2014.
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Small World. How are you doing? Are you becoming a programmer and if so, is that a good thing?
Fred.
Hi Miek and welcome to Codetown. I like your fractal photo. Did you generate it? If so, we'd love to see the code. Hope you can make it to the next OrlandoJUG meeting. You might join the OrlandoJUG Town here at Codetown so you'll automatically be on the meeting mailing list. All the best, Mike