Re: Damnit Jim, I'm a technical writer, not a writer!

Subject: Re: Damnit Jim, I'm a technical writer, not a writer!
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 16:54:14 -0700

kcronin -at- daleen -dot- com wrote:

> But I still don't see why I need to also have a programmer's skill set.
>
> I DO need to be able to converse intelligently with developers, but how
> deep do you have to go?

I think you answer your own questions. How can you expect to converse
intelligently with developers if you don't have some understanding of
what they do?

As for how deep you have to go: enough to converse intelligently with
developers. Most of them don't deal with assembly language, so you
generally don't have to, either.

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