poets as tech writers and programmers

["Jessica Weissman" <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com>]

Richard Hugo, one of the best and most accessible of modern poets, was a
technical writer for Boeing.

I'm no Richard Hugo, but I am a lightly published poet, a technical
writer, and a former programmer.  My pay was on a par with the pay of
other, more prosaically-trained technical writers and programmers.

-  Jessica Weissman

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...much snipped here

I wouldn't hire a poet to write software for me, and I don't expect most
software developers to write good documentation.  The availability of
automatic doc-extraction tools doesn't change that.

Just my opinion, of course.

-Andrew

P.S.  Actually, I MIGHT hire a poet to write software.  But I wouldn't
pay him much.


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