RE: Have to know Programming to be able to write about it? -- NO

[John Posada <JPosada -at- book -dot- com>]

I'm sure that the way it was done made the most sense given the situations
and conditions.

I'm just saying that if one of the conditions was different....the writer
having expertise, with all else equal, the product would have been either
better or faster, or maybe both.

John Posada
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-----Original Message-----
From: Karen E. Black [mailto:kblack_text -at- hotmail -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 12:16 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: Have to know Programming to be able to write about it? --
NO

If it had to be written, wasn't it better that the writer spend time with 
the SMEs tapping their knowledge than for the SMEs to spend their time 
resentfully writing material that then had to be heavily edited, queried, 
and re-edited by the writer?

Not that all, or even most, SMEs resent writing, or do it badly, of 
course...

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