RE: The three great virtues of a technical writer

["Gilger.John" <JGilger -at- acresgaming -dot- com>]

Earl Cooley wants to know what are the three greatest single-word
virtues that typify an outstanding technical writer? 

I agree with Larry Wall and all the Perl-geeks with a little re-scoping:
Laziness -- don't write more than you need to cover the topic.
Impatience -- get it done and get rid of it. You can spend forever
polishing a doc if you have the patience for it.
Hubris -- I know how to do my job. I _AM_ the docs SME and I'm not going
to let some twirp of a code SME dictate how I write my docs.

John Gilger
Senior Technical Writer
Acres Gaming, Inc.

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