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Subject:Re: TECHWR-L Digest - 16 Feb 1996 to 17 Feb 1996 From:David Blyth <dblyth -at- QUALCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 18 Feb 1996 15:25:18 -0800
>Hence, what's the scoop? Are you engineers-turned-writers or writers
>with a technical bent/experience/talent-for-learning-a-new-piece-of-
>software-on-a-familiar-platform-in-no-time-at-all (has to be a word
>for this somewhere :)?
The later, except it doesn't have to be 'on-a-familiar-platform'.
BTW, perhaps the word you're looking for is "adaptable".