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Re: Hackos and process

Subject: Re: Hackos and process
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 11:59:04 -0800

Milan Davidovic wrote:

--- Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> wrote:

Hackos' tone sounds as if she means her comments to
be definitive. Her tone doesn't have much room for variation, which is
why it doesn't seem to deal with the complexity of real work situations.


Perhaps Wiley's view is that sounding definitive is
good for sales.


I'm not sure what that has to do with the subject; if the tone is due to the editor or publisher, that doesn't change the point - it just places it at one remove.
However, it's not very likely that an editor would set the tone, or think that sounding definitive is good for sales. I've seen some Dummy books that take real life complexity into account, so I don't think that sounding definitive has any broader appeal. And, as some comments on this subject show, the definitive tone makes at least some people less impressed with the book.

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