Re: RE: Why should a tech writer learn XML?

[Susan W. Gallagher <sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net>]

Reminds me of a conversation I had with a CTO I once 
reported to. I was writing API docs and migrating from 
Smalltalk to C++ and he asked me what I was doing to learn
the language, so I told him that I was reading X and Y...
Then I commented, "luckily, I don't have to make it work,
I only need to know the concepts!"

He laughed and said, "I've done a lot of programming by just
tweaking an example until it works, without ever having to
learn the concepts!"

So, the answer to your question, John, is no -- just as many
programmers and end-users want to get from A to Z by the
shortest possible route. At least, that's been my experience.

-Sue Gallagher

John Posada wrote:
> Wouldn't you say that a programmer revels in learning really complex
> applications and squeezing out the last drop of feature, and a
> non-programmer wants to get from point A to Point Z with no wish to
> learn the guts of an application, only what they need to do their job? 



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