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From: bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU (Bryce Nesbitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Structured Design (Not a marketing analysis)
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Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 15:04:23 EDT
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[ Sigh, UCB's net news disk filled up.  I got numbers, but no actual text
to go with them.  Sorta like the lineeater's big brother :-) 
Or perhaps Robert W. Skyles; his company sends me royalty reports...
but no checks!  :-( ]


In article <1267@killer.UUCP> elg@killer.UUCP (Eric Green) writes:
>in article <469@>, denbeste@cc5.bbn.com.BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste) says:
>
>> A. SPECIFICATION: Write the user manual FIRST!! [I'm not kidding! Figure
>>    out what you are going to do before you start working on any of it! Not
>>    doing this is THE classic novice's mistake.]
>
>Definitely! AMEN! Too often, the documentation is put off [till later]...
>...and someone wonders...
>why there's awkward errors in the user manual...

I once worked on a project like that.  We had the opposite problem;  it turned
out to be a *major* pain to conform the software to the poorly written
manual! 

[ The situation was real, every other implication of this posting gets lots
of :-) :-) :-) warnings! ]

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