Roger Oberholtzer <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
