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Re: Remember secretaries? (was RE: Proof that content is more important than style)

Subject: Re: Remember secretaries? (was RE: Proof that content is more important than style)
From: Paul DuBois <paul -at- kitebird -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 18:41:01 -0600


>If content were king, then we all might as well go apply to MacDonald's
or Wendy's, and let the programmers rite there owne book's.

Not to burst your bubble or anything, but I know some programmers who are
excellent writers, as well as being very good at software development.

Sure, but: As a programmer, I'd agree with the generalization that
programmers can't write very well. It's not always true, but in
my experience, most programmers *don't* write that well, and in fact
don't *like* to write. Programmers prefer to program, and that's
why documentation almost always gets left until last -- if indeed
it ever gets written at all. :-)

The biggest reason for not letting programmers write the manuals is that
coding is worth more to their companies than writing.



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