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Subject:Re[2]: Make It Pretty From:Barb Philbrick <barb -dot- philbrick -at- PCOHIO -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 29 Nov 1994 14:38:00 -0500
A> When I was all of 23, I got a similar line from an engineer at a
A> large defense company ... except he said, "Documentation is a
A> necessary byproduct of good engineering."
A>Interesting. When I get sniped at by engineers I always say it's a
A>byproduct of
A>*bad* engineering. I tease them to "engineer me out of a job" by
A>making it simple enough that they won't need me to spend all my time
A>ferreting out the details of how to make it work. I'm still here,
A>though.
My sentiments exactly!
It's been a long time since anyone gave me a hard time about documents
(other than teasing). When they did, I told them they could do it
themselves. That clams them up pretty quickly!
Barb
barb -dot- philbrick -at- pcohio -dot- com
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