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RE: So you wanna be an API documentation writer? (WAS: RE: API Documentation)
Subject:RE: So you wanna be an API documentation writer? (WAS: RE: API Documentation) From:Marguerite Krupp <mkrupp -at- cisco -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sun, 25 Feb 2001 10:41:05 -0500
One correction to the course Emily proposes:
Don't believe "Soul of a New Machine." I worked at Data General during the
period covered by that book. It paints far too romantic and cozy a picture
of what it was like!
In a lot of ways, things *have* gotten better since then. For one thing, DG
no longer exists as a corporation. ;) But here I am writing last-minute
release notes (not even someething sexy like API stuff) on a Snowy, Sleety
Sunday morning, subsisting on *free coffee* (one of the perks DG didn't
have) and hoping the slop outside melts by the time I crawl out of here!
I do agree that if you're going to be writing documentation for programmers,
you darn well better know something about programming!
Now back to the snow... uh, Release Notes!
Marguerite
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