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Subject:Re: The Edges have Finally Blurred From:"Michael A. Lewis" <lewism -at- BRANDLE -dot- COM -dot- AU> Date:Mon, 10 Nov 1997 09:42:39 +1100
The edges have always been blurred. John Brockmann said, years ago --
and he might well have been quoting an even earlier source -- that "a
manual is a program for users". Technical communicators are writing
programs for something far more complex than computers, with many more
uncontrolled variables than I ever tackled as a mainframe systems
programmer.
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Michael Lewis
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