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by crdb 3569 days ago
This is because there are two families of tech writing, one is concise and detail oriented, the other is long form because it contains complex ideas that cannot be summarised in bullets.

Take as an example most of Dijkstra's output. Could you reduce "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science" [1] into bullets and still retain its message?

[1] https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/E...

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Using bullets is not the same as being succinct.