I think it takes both - the non programmer and the user type to write good docs.

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003 10:59:23 +0100
Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:59:12 -0500
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > Feigning erudition, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> > % Hmm, I'll look at Mplayer then.  I understand almost all of the stuff we
> > use is done by people like us in our spare time but it seems the docs or
> > at least a decent overview of what a package does and what you need is
> > lacking on most things out there - even some of the "professional" ones!% 
> > % Docs are NOT optional! <G>.
> > 
> > Agreed. But, programmers should not be the ones to write the docs.
> 
> Very true. OTOH, our company decided to write docs for a bunch of software,

> 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...
> 
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