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Subject:a programmer overheard in the hallway From:"Steve Schwarzman" <steve_schwarzman -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:34:23 -0500
For your enjoyment, a snippet of programmer conversation I just overheard in
the hallway: "I told [name] that I don't *read* documentation, so why should
I *write* documentation?"
Hmmm. If you extrapolate that sentiment by many orders of magnitude to cover
all programmers (obviously not a scientifically valid approach!), you might
conclude that a) tech writers will always be needed since programmers
can't/won't do the docs; and b) tech writers are not needed since nobody
reads the docs.
Actually, the paradox is only apparent, not real. What the programmer was
talking about was user documentation, not progammer docs. But it is fun to
think about.
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