atw: Re: Writing IS Programming!!
- From: "Michael Lewis" <mlewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:34:55 +1100
Joe Zolin:
> I hereby contend that Technical Writing is a form of programming... a term
> I like to use is wetware programming, where us carbon-based computers
(read
> humans) are fed appropriate instructions in order to perform tasks...
>
>
> Any comments?
I agree. John Brockmann said in the early '80s: "A manual is a program for
users." We forget that at our peril.
Michael Lewis
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