RE: Article: "Living Documentation"

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

Bruce...I agree with you 99.9%. Maybe that's the only problem I had with his
post...he classified bad writers as 99.9% of them 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Byfield [mailto:bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:50 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: Article: "Living Documentation"

Jeff Hanvey wrote:

>Another Plato rant against writers. I really wonder sometimes if he
actually
>writes, considering that his attitude towards his own profession is so
>disdainful - and every now and then, I get tired of him bashing us with his
>generalities.
>

If you read closely, he's not ranting against writers. He's ranting 
against *bad* writers. I know that I do the best that I can in the 
circumstances in which I find myself in, and, without any false 
humility, I know from experience that my best is at least the equal of 

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