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"David R. Matusiak" <dave AT matusiak.org> wrote:
>has proofreading gone the way of the cute little Taco Bell dog?

*sigh* 

Proofreading is an oft neglected part of writing. And evidently, so is using 
spellcheck. 

Proofreading is also very lucrative. I get paid sweet ducats for it. And it 
*is* all about me.

Speaking of which, I'm proofreading a new Webmin book. For those of you who 
might care, a new version is available and the book will be published soon. 

http://www.webmin.com/

I'm not trying to promote or sell the book or application here. I just 
thought some of you might be interested.

Beth




>/drm
>
>On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 03:20  PM, Beckett wrote:
>
>>   There's a great interview on Salon this week with Ellen Ullman, a 
>> software engineer who has a new novel out that centers around 
>> debugging code.  I haven't seen the book, but the interview itself 
>> contains a lot of interesting and intelligent observations about the 
>> nature of writing software, and touches on a lot of other things as 
>> well, from storytelling to open source.
>>
>>   I commend it to y'all.
>>
>> TaB
>>
>> Excerpt:
>> "Engineer" used to mean people who were working kernel-level or lower 
>> -- it referred to a level of code one was writing. If you were writing 
>> in the application space you were a programmer, and if you were 
>> writing in the system space you were an engineer. And there was some 
>> merit to that distinction. The application space has now become so 
>> complicated mainly because of all the incredible energy that's gone 
>> into the user interface.
>>
>> So the term "engineer" just began to leak across the divide. It 
>> reflects the desire to try to see it all as a scientific process. But 
>> it's right in one respect: You want to build something. Engineering 
>> implies a kind of tinkering, building mentality: Let's get to work, 
>> let's get it to work. It's not about designing the most elegant 
>> machine, it's not art. The goal of engineering is to build something 
>> that works. And I think that's very much the motive in programming.
>>
>> http://www.salon.com/books/int/2003/05/16/ullman/index.html
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