RE: Software engineer tech. writers? Do they exist?

["Mark the Writer" <mdb-career -at- cox -dot- net>]

I think it depends on where you are located.

To my knowledge - I am the only degreed Electrical Engineer in Arizona
that specializes in documentation.

I wrote some of the Flight Critical software for the Boeing 777 among other
projects. 

When I was in Silicon Valley back in 1988 - there were quite a few engineers
that wrote and edited.

Can contact me off-list if you need help for your C project.

See www.mdbinc.com

Mark
Writer @ Editor @ Engineer


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Are there software-oriented tech. writers who are also software
engineers who can read through C source and write documentation
based on what it does?

The C code in question (AOLserver) is very clean, well-written and
organized.

Is there any hope in finding a tech. writer who has the necessary
skills to help document such a project, or am I just dreaming?

-- Dossy

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