Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

Brian Kernighan on the origins of Unix

Technical writing is a very different discipline to software writing, and needs a different set of skills. Unfortunately, too many companies fail to value tech writing, and instead expect that the software authors will write good documentation themselves.

A really good tech writer knows how to take a developer's documentation (written from a place of deep familiarity with the code) and turn it into something useful for people unfamiliar with the code. A software developer just doesn't have that skill.