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Re: Tara Scanlon's "How would you reduce your documentation by 80%?"
Subject:Re: Tara Scanlon's "How would you reduce your documentation by 80%?" From:Patrick O'Connell <patricko -at- EICON -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 20 Jan 1995 10:21:00 PST
Provided you're talking about software: make the program so intuitive and
well-designed that 80% of the documentation is simply unnecessary.
Yeah, I know. I don't think it'll ever happen, either. If it does, an awful
lot of us may have to become user-interface gurus or otherwise change our
vocations.
Pat
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