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ChallengesClarify (a) As core technology activities mature, they will be terminated, as one might expect, following carefully designed implementation schedules, by transfer to the applied projects area. (b) When the objects’ message handlers learn parameters, options, or arguments don’t match criteria, personnel receiving message turndowns revise or cancel original messages. (c) The mathematicians assumed values for the variables (specifically those for dollar amounts, unit prices, totals, and running totals) should not be specified, or had not been defined. (d) The engineers regularly maintained the software, which had been written years before using COBOL, was such spaghetti that no one could safely repair it. |
Other ways to trim that text 1a. Cut any paper-based text by 50%. 1c. Make some sentences short. 1d. Make most paragraphs short. 1f. Move vital but tangential or supplemental material. 1g. Convert repeating categories of information into tables. Resources on brevity |
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