Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well

Re:Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well by JoshTriplett on Friday May 31, 2019 @03:05PM (#20063988)

When you say "must" with the weight of RFC 2119, you need to consider the "or what?". If you're writing a standard, what force does it carry? Is there a certification? Is it a marketing issue? Will other implementations put the bad implementation on a blocklist? Will they actually fail to interoperate in practice? Or can someone get away with violating the "must"?

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Re:Undervalued Engineering Skills: Writing Well by TeMPOraL on Friday May 31, 2019 @05:52PM (#20065339)

For in-house design documents: or you're not a team player. You've done a bad job. This will screw up something, somewhere, at some point, costing people time and money.

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