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GeneralThe value of clear explanations that don't skip detail Pin
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Mark_Wallace4-Dec-14 12:19
Mark_Wallace4-Dec-14 12:19 
Rule 1 of good documentation:

1. Say what it is and what it does, not what it is not or what it does not do.

The reason for that is very simple: people can (and do in software manuals! Often!) fill hundreds of pages explaining what a product or feature does not do, where it is possible to explain what it does do in just a few pages -- which of those two is more useful to the struggling user who is trying to figure out how to work the damned thing?

I don't need to be told that a product or feature won't iron my shirts, clean my car, or bring about world peace; I need to know what it is and how to make it go.

What the text could have done is use a prettified version of "This product does A. To do B or C, use something else", but it is usually better to stop at "This product does A".
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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