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Subject:RE: 10 Things All Technical Writers Should Do From:"Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Sun, 14 Nov 2004 10:16:18 -0500
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> As technical writers, one thing we should always do is
> establish appropriate limitations to the terms we're using.
In a discussion like this, people say things spontaneously. That's the
nature of mailing list discussions.
> But I can't accept that core natural processes, like the
> weather, for example, are programming.
I did not say that. Perhaps you have me confused with some other poster.
But to equate programming
> and natural processes, at one stroke reduces the human
> achievement of understanding and "programing", and also
> elevates humans to god-like status.
I did not equate programming and natural processes.
It reduces the human achievement by saying that
> programming exists absent human will. But the human will, an
> extension of the basic will to life, has developed into a
> will to understand, make order, express order - for better or
> worse. That is our crown jewel, so to speak, and I hate to
> see it denigrated.
I really don't see where anyone has denigrated anything.
>
> At the same time, your claim says that human programming is
> on a par with natural processes.
I did not say that human programming is on a par with natural processes.
In summary, I said none of the things you have attributed to me.
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