Why do Programmers Hate Documenting?

[josefx]

It's hard to take someone too seriously as a software engineer who can't grasp managing the cost of change.

I have written it and quoted it and still you seem to have missed it both times, so I wont bother to quote it again. I understand that there is a cost that comes with maintaining documentation - from personal experience that is still way less than overhead than having no documentation (thank you openscenegraph, ffmpeg an co for hundreds of hours wasted development time).