4 May
2009
4 May
'09
11:15 a.m.
At 06:17 AM 5/4/2009, Roger Holmes wrote:
I agree with the confusion being bad. I do not agree
with the rest.
Ease of learning is important if you only want to use a program a
couple of times. Ideally you do not want to learn anything, you want
to get a job done and move on and not have irrelevant facts hanging
around in your head for ever-more.
Several times a year, I have the opportunity to teach someone
about copy-and-paste under Windows. It may be common knowledge
but it's not universal. I've literally had a client break down
in tears when I've shown them, after they'd spent weeks retyping
portions of documents.
At 06:18 AM 5/4/2009, Roger Holmes wrote:
Does anyone here happen to have a copy of the original
loose leaf
QuickDraw 3D manuals? Someone chucked out my copy at work thinking
they had been supeceeded, but they were far better than the later
documentation and still apply to the Quesa open source project I use
in my work.
I probably do. I think I put them in deeper storage this winter.
I may have unusual docs, too, as I received some from Apple
when I was writing an article about it for Byte.
- John