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Subject:Re[2]: Make It Pretty From:"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 16 Nov 1994 15:08:00 -0500
When I was all of 23, I got a similar line from an engineer at a large
defense company ... except he said, "Documentation is a necessary
byproduct of good engineering."
Interesting. When I get sniped at by engineers I always say it's a byproduct of
*bad* engineering. I tease them to "engineer me out of a job" by making it
simple enough that they won't need me to spend all my time ferreting out the
details of how to make it work. I'm still here, though.
Have fun,
Arlen
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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