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Imagine Docs Help

    11-Oct-91 01:02:38
Fm: Bill Goelkel 71725,455
To: John Gager 71336,624
John, I think you're absolutely right. I'd even take it a step further. The docs need to be pretty far along before the program is finally locked down. It's very difficult for a programmer to see logical inconsistencies in the way features are implemented until you go through the exercise of trying to explain it to someone else. If a procedure is difficult to explain, it probably needs to be rethought. By handing the task of documentation over to an outsider as an afterthought, Impulse is denying themselves and their software the advantages of this important QA step at the same time they leave themselves vulnerable to any potential competitor with a mediocre program and superior documentation. — Bill