Documentation

A friend has been struggling with under-documented projects (*cough* zoo software). This raised the question, what makes good documentation? And what is a good documentation system? Here’s my opinion backed with some sources.

“There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.” – C.A.R. Hoare