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[kwall@kurtwerks.com]

Feigning erudition, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote:
% 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

You're kidding, right? This reminds me of one definition of a programmer:
the one who makes the lies the salesman told come true. ;-)

% 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.

Boy, howdy. That would've been one dead PR guy...

Kurt
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