FW: FW: The repeated/quoted text in your message

[Megan Golding <mgolding -at- secureworks -dot- net>]

John Posada wondered:
> If you weren't a programmer, but you wanted to increase your strength
> as a technical writer by adding a programming ability, what would you
> go for that would satisfy the following conditions:
> 
> 1) Make you more attractive as a technical writer in a tough job
> market.
> 2) Can get into without having taken the customary path of
> basic/Cobol/c
> 3) Would actually be of value to those looking at resumes.
> 4) Is not a dead-end and can be leveraged into other ares.

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How about Perl? (www.perl.com)

Sure, real programmers might scoff at this scripting language listed
as a reply to a query about programming languages but if you 
want a skill that'll be useful even if you never work as a Programmer,
Perl's your tool. 

Things I do with Perl:
1. Converting source documents into a homegrown HTML help system.
2. Massive search-and-replace operations across an entire directory.
3. Link checking in an HTML help system. (finding broken links)

All that, and I've only been at this for a month!

Regards,
Megan Golding
mgolding -at- secureworks -dot- net

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