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[Bill Swallow]

Back end terminology and UI terminology are not synonymous. Replicant
is not valid, though. Perhaps they were just up late watching Blade
Runner. Or perhaps they were just dismissing you playfully. ;-)

None of which has anything to do with how they write documentation.

I know many developers who write fantastic documentation...

But just becuase developers call it  something doesn't mean that's
what you should tell Joe User it is. After all, you don't go calling
screens, windows, and dialogs "WinForms", do you?

Maybe the developer was answering your question while expecting you to
do your job by equating what a replicant does to something a user
would understand?

;-)

After all, a Replicant is a "Skin-Job"... (I'll let you think about
that as it pertains to UI design...)

Ha!!!  [=OP

On 6/16/06, Pageologist <pageology at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/16/06, Ron Hearn <RHearn at cucbc.com> wrote:
> >
> > The word that I've heard developers use for it is "replicant" which
> > sounds like something from a bad Sci-Fi movie.
>
> Yet another example of why developers should not write documentation.

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