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On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:39:39 +0000, Udo Kuhnt wrote:
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> Yes, I agree - I have often encountered that kind of software. In fact,
> I have often said that Windows does not seem to have been designed to be
> usable, but rather to enforce the views of the developers on the users.
There are too many people using it "straight out of the box" to
say it is unusable.
But definitely it forces the users to conform to the way the
developers insist that the ignorant masses should go, which is
almost certainly NOT the way the developers would use it
themselves.
> IMO, good software is written by programmers who are perfectionists and
> always strive to improve it. On the other hand, programmers who accept
> rather than correct problems with their programs tend to produce
> software that the users are also unhappy with.
Too often these days the programmers just let the software bloat
out as they add more and more to it to correct the faults they've
built into the basic product.
It is almost always easier to write a patch to correct a fault
than to investigate and fix what is causing it in the first
place.
. ,-./\
. / \ from Greg Mayman, in Adelaide, South Australia
. \_,-*_/ "Queen City of The South" 34:55 S 138:36 E
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