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Subject:Re: The Problem with STC From:Crescent Enterprise <cres -at- cres -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 9 Dec 2000 17:57:42 -0500 (EST)
Communication skills certainly do take time to acquire, but the analysis
and design skills of a truly expert software engineer aren't exactly
simple to acquire either. I've learned a couple programming languages
pretty well and at one point took a shot a development. I soon learned I'd
only advanced to the equivalent skill level of writing a correct
sentence and, possiby, constructing a paragraph. The ability to deliver a
product that responded to even the simplest set of functional requirements
for a high performance production environment was not even in sight.
Steve Whitney
Takoma Park, MD
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Michael West wrote:
> My own finding after thirty years in IT and technical
> communications (twenty of them in the US) is that in
> this industry, communications skills are far rarer and
> far harder to acquire than programming skills.
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