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Subject:RE: RE: Outsourcing Jobs to India From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techpubs -at- genek -dot- com> To:mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:04 Sep 2003 21:29:34 GMT
Actually, I think it really points out the failure
of software developers to create user-friendly UIs.
"Cookbook" SW instruction writing shouldn't really
be needed at all, except perhaps as the text to be
displayed by the UI itself (i.e., embedded help) as
the user steps through the SW.
Gene Kim-Eng
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Thu, 4 Sep 2003 17:04:59 -0400 Mark Baker?wrote:
Seems like a reasonable speculation, and, if it is correct, it points out the consequences of our singular failure to automate the routine parts of Tech Writing.
