(2004-04-19) Bernstein Tech Writer Gurus

Mark Bernstein on Technical Writing gurus. Adam Osborne was a wonderful tech writer. He built a terrific business on his model, writing a wonderful series of books on microprocessors back when microprocessors were new. I still own mine. It was brilliant: from sentence structure to production, everything was right. Osborne, and Brian Kernighan, and maybe Robert Horn (who was at Hypertext '87, though not at dinner) pretty much defined modern tech writing. Or so it seems to me.