RE: XML/DocBook for newbies

Subject: RE: XML/DocBook for newbies
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axion -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 11:39:52 -0700


On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 10:40 -0700, Joe Malin wrote:

> The future of technical documentation will belong to technical writers
> with software development skills. *Not* because you need to know "the
> technology", but because computers are so useful for organizing
> information. In the days of the typewriter, a tech writer who could type
> 60 words/minute no mistakes had a decided advantage. In today's world, a
> tech writer who knows Python and XML has a decided advantage.

I agree, but I'd modify the statement slightly. You don't need to know
a specific language, but you need to know programming languages in
general -- enough so that you can quickly learn another one, or can
sense when something may not be quite right and needs to be checked.

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