Do you remember how story problems always take longer than just the pure maths version? You stew about it and sit in your chair, taking that standardized test. None of the multiple choice answers look good enough. How can you choose!
Today finally validated this skill. While I believe it true that accidental difficulty pops its ugly head in all the time, I have never seen a group of folks who opt to use. Let me briefly, vaguely explain how it works. But remain wary; I do not recommend doing this at all.
Google Docs has the following features:
- version history
- named versions, ie tags
- forking (copies)
- comments
- chat
- multi-user synchronous editing
- centralized backups
- some kind of CLI support… XD
This might seem great, but it does lack merging histories back together, one of the key advantages of using something such as git and its branching. It also turns into soup, and the code repositories eventually turn into prose with code blocks. Document comments and chat turn into massive amounts of meta placed around the code.
The code gets refined, lazily, whenever something needs to run. But eventually some of the documents become overrun, besieged by prose and jargon. One I looked at recently had prose, more than an order of magnitude higher than the actual LOC.