> trash literature

From a business perspective, maybe it should be trash literature. (Edit: I mean in the "It was morning and the sun came up, which made it less cold." sense.) When I code, I try to write all of the comments first, then fill in the implementation that matches the comments. It's typically very dry prose, and you get things like "Walk through the collection and pick out all of the orange widgets", but at the end of the day you're not trying to stir emotions with this stuff, you're trying to make the next person have less of a headache understanding it.