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From: werner@molokai.sw.mcc.com (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: A plea for revised mac programming documentation
Summary: more dry humour ...
Message-ID: <2361@molokai.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 17 May 89 11:39:36 GMT
References: <496@grand.UUCP>
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX
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In article <496@grand.UUCP>, day@grand.UUCP (Dave Yost) writes:
> Imagine...
> 
> It's 1990.  A programmer, perhaps already expert in
> another type of system, finally gets the message that
> the Mac is great, and wants to learn how to program it.
> 
> Scenario 1:

 	....I couldn't think of a humourous remark to this sad description
	of the state of affairs ...

> Scenario 2:
> 
>     He goes out and buys The Macintosh Technical
>     Documentation, Version 7.0 (10 volumes).  These
>     books have revision bars in the margin for the
>     benefit of old-timers, but he ignores them.  He
>     reads the tutorial in the first few volumes, feels
>     like he has a clear and consistent view of mac
>     software, then he proceeds to produce good code,
>     occasionally referring to the reference material in
>     the remaining volumes, and to the 200-page, totally
>     complete two-level Index.

	hehe, I've said since 1984 that Apple missed out on learning
	one thing from Big Blue:  how to write documentation that can
	be supported over the years;  I still say the same thing.

	I only had to grin when I thought of the commercial Big Blue
	could launch, IFF they'd ever get down to mentioning the
	competition:

	Remember the 1984ish Apple TV-ad with showing the itty-bitty
	Macintosh-documentation "butterflying" down on the table ?
	"that's all you need on the Macintosh" ...

	...followed by the 1990-reality *CLUNK* of the 10 volumes;

	welcome to the "real world", kid.  wait until you get promoted
	to the second grade where we'll talk of "virtual memory",
	"version-control", "automatic job-scheduling", "macro-languages",
	"generation-file-names", "source-code control", ...

	well, at least marketing behaves like IBM-clones already ...

			<wink-wink, nudge-nudge... what, that tear in
				my eye?  just a little onion ...>

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