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Subject:Programming / scripting languages in tech-writing From:Emily Berk <emily -at- armadillosoft -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 06 May 2002 23:59:56 -0700
On Mon, 06 May 2002 09:14:03 -0300, Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com> asked:
>... Does anybody else on the list use a programming or scripting language in
>their work? If so, which one? And what sort of tasks do you use them for?
Hey, Bruce:
I am trained as a programmer. I often write the programming examples for the APIs I document. And I am fantastic at catching missing semi-colons and code that doesn't actually work as commented in example code I get from SMEs .) I have also written docs in HTML/JavaScript/PHP.
Right now, I am between (paying) projects :-(
But I am spending about 5 hours a day working on some websites I maintain and creating some new ones. I mostly use PHP (a scripting language, similar to PERL) with MySQL as the backend database. If I had my druthers, I'd be working in C++ or Java, but my ISP won't let me run my .exe files on their servers and charges like $20 a month extra for Java support.
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