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Subject:Re: The Use of Future Tense in Procedures From:"Wayne J. Douglass" <wayned -at- VERITY -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 6 Nov 1996 12:03:10 -0800
At 01:50 PM 11/6/96 CST, Don Timmerman wrote:
>Hi All,
>Much concern is given about writing procedures in the active vs. the
>passive voice. Does
>anybody give a hoot?
I, for one, don't give a hoot, but you have opened a discussion that has led
to religious wars along the lines of the superiority of the Mac to the PC.
--Wayne Douglass
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