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Article #624785Re: The Peter Principle
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 19:59
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2018 19:59
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On 7/6/2018 11:25 AM, Dan Espen wrote: > Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes: > >> On 2018-07-06, Gareth's Downstairs Computer >> <headstone255.but.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> Do incompetent computer programmers become technical authors? >> >> Nah, they go straight into management. > > Some do, some aren't so good at kissing up. > > I'm not going to condemn every Tech Writer that way, but > that's one of many escape routes for failed computer > programmers. Personally, I don't hold it against them. > If they can do an okay job at writing and were only > creating a mess at their attempts to code, more power to them. > I thought this discussion was about writing books on computers and programming. One tech writer who moved to writing computer and programming books... is Lance Leventhal. He may do well as a tch writer, but I find his programming books to be poor! One writer that I find producing excellent books on programming is a an named Tom Swan. Unfortunately, Swan has moved on to other things, but might still be cajoled into writing a programming book again... if the right opportunity presents itself. http://www.tomswan.com/ -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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