Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxqq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!abnjh!u1100a!pyuxn!pyuxww!pyuxqq!fmc From: fmc@pyuxqq.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: To Read or Not to Read. Message-ID: <589@pyuxqq.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 17:25:40 EST Article-I.D.: pyuxqq.589 Posted: Mon Jan 30 17:25:40 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Feb-84 00:16:49 EST Lines: 5 >> Why are there authors of technical documents trying to become >> the next Shakespeare? >> >> I've got a document in front of me that's about 200 pages long. >> Everything that was said in that document could have been said >> in 20 pages with absolutely no meaning or clarity lost. The >> technical content would have remained the same. I needed about I heartily agree that VERBOSITY is a current plague on mankind. How I would love to find a politician who would give a simple "yes" or "no" to questions that can be answered that way.