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[Condon Thomas A KPWA]

Roger Oberholtzer <mailto:roger at opq.se> typed thusly on Tuesday, January 07,
2003 1:59 AM:

> Very true. OTOH, our company decided to write docs for a bunch of
> software, purposely not contacting the programmers. It made for nice
> sci-fi reading about what the documenters thought the software 'should'
> do. Admittedly, an extreme example.
> 
> As a programmer, I would perfer that someone else document the stuff. But
> I hate it when features go missing in the docs. Lots of work, and no one
> knows it is even there...

I once worked for a company that had a PR guy write the user document for a
product and then asked me to write the software to make it do that!  The
hardware had already been designed.  It required implementation of a
software UART, since the HW designer forgot one chip.  Sadly, there are all
kinds out there.


In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord,

Tom  :-})

Thomas A. Condon
Barbershop Bass Singer
Registered Linux User #154358
A Jester Unemployed