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RE: Has anyone ever written the user guide before the product wasdeveloped (coded)?
Subject:RE: Has anyone ever written the user guide before the product wasdeveloped (coded)? From:"Richard L Hamilton" <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:23:02 -0700
I highly recommend the practice if you're writing the code yourself.
One of the best programmers I ever worked with would write detailed
documentation before he wrote any code, but he was an exception (he was
a darned good writer, too:).
Dick Hamilton
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