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In 80s and 90s engineers knew how to write developer documentation - a lost skill http://www.atariunix.com/docs/developers_guide.pdf http://www.atariunix.com/do
by miohtama 5y ago
In 80s and 90s engineers knew how to write developer documentation - a lost skill http://www.atariunix.com/docs/developers_guide.pdf http://www.atariunix.com/docs/developers_guide.pdf
- dboreham 5y agoThey still know. They're just not told/incentivized to do so.
- p_l 5y agoDocumentation like that is written by specialist technical writers in cooperation with engineering. Corporations found out that they can skimp on that and still get paid.
- icedchai 5y agoYep. I haven't seen a technical writer position since the early 2000's, at an enterprise SaaS company (we called them "ASPs" back then.)
- systemvoltage 5y agoIt was the golden age of computing. Today’s best in class documentation (Stripe!?) doesn’t come close to average documentation in those days.