Re: Elegance

Subject: Re: Elegance
From: Wayne Douglass <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 09:43:39 -0700

At 09:56 AM 4/23/98 -0400, Tim Altom wrote:

>One of my nominees, albeit a bit reluctantly, is the Word book _The Hacker's
>Guide to Word for Windows_ by Leonhard, Chen, and Krueger. Simple language,
>with barrels of really useful stuff. Declarative sentences. The book is a
>lengthy one, though, and it makes me wonder if it couldn't be done more
>elegantly. Perhaps not; the subject is Microsoft Word, after all.
>
You can't write a manual that's better than the product.

--Wayne
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