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Re: Windows help article in Feb. Dr. Dobb's Journal
Subject:Re: Windows help article in Feb. Dr. Dobb's Journal From:"David Blyth @second" <dsb -at- ALSYS -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 16 Jan 1995 18:54:37 PST
>At least, that's the drift I get. The lead sentence: "At some time or
>another, every Windows application developer has to generate help
>files." As a member of the technical writing community, I feel a sense
>of outrage that, in 1995, having programmers write documentation is
>still considered the norm by software developers. That, in 1995,
Why feel a sense of outrage? We're probably better off to realize that
we ARE "application developers".
David (The Man) Blyth
Technical Writer
Thomson Software Products
dsb -at- thomsoft -dot- com
My opinions are not necessarily those of my employer (but they should be).
