On 4/24/16 10:07 AM, Paul A. Bristow wrote:
Ahhh yes. That's the real problem. What you characterize as a solution/feather, I characterize as a symptom of fundamental fault. Do have have to troll the whole net to differentiate a function? Of course not. That fact that this is now an acceptable answer is testament to the sad state of modern software development!
Absolutely!
(And sadly I must also include C/C++ in this - the world's greatest software disaster, but let's not digress...)
LOL - +1 but ...
And the documentation actually makes it worse because it suggests that the system is simple to use when it's actually not. It makes naive users feel like they're stupid - whether they are or not.
At least I know I'm stupid - but I still want to get things to work.
LOL - note that when one manages to make it to work, he feels smart - even though he might not be.
LOL - I'm referring to discussions such as this one. The fact that everytime a question is raised, someone has an answer for some specific scenario. This is deemed to be support that the system is a good one. This the exact wrong conclusion! It seems that it never occurs to anyone that the fact that such a question has to be ask in the first place is an indicator that something is fundamentally wrong with the concept and/or implementation.
+1
Thanks for that, it gets lonely being me. Robert Ramey