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Subject:Re: HELP From:"Starr, Mike" <Mike -dot- Starr -at- SOFTWARE -dot- ROCKWELL -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 10 Aug 1995 17:47:04 -0600
And don't forget the writer's most valuable tool: a stout piece of 2x4 for
assaulting recalcitrant programmers.
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From: Elna Tymes
To: Multiple recipients of list TEC
Subject: Re: HELP
Date: Thursday, August 10, 1995 1:39PM
In the best of all possible worlds, you don't have to go grubbing around
getting your source material. I can't recall a project in the last 20
years that has qualified as "the best of all possible worlds."
Writing by provocation is only one tool in a seasoned writer's arsenal,
along with a tape recorder, a winsome look, the ability to read code,
sufficient fondness for Chinese food that you'll be accepted as "one of
the team," endless patience, the ability to lead-butt your way through
endless design sessions where the programmers debate every button and
field and option on the program they're designing, and an ability to keep
in mind that you're writing for USERS, not necessarily programmers
