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- From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: Does reading this group make you depressed? The story of a victim.
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 13:24:39 GMT
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- In <C05vFC.IIv@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >>Jesus... so I guess that programming languages, text editors,
- >>AmigaTeX, Real 3D and others are not productivity software. Oh Jesus,
- >>then I guess they're games.
-
- >drawing programs, etc. My definition of "productivity" software includes
- >software that allows a computer to be used as a tool for the composition of
- >documents, reports, presentations, and other forms of media. Basically,
- >productivity software is software that allows you to actually create
- >something substantial, something that actually exists.
-
- Marc, read again what he uses as examples. It included "text editors",
- AmigaTeX and Real 3D. None of these can be called "development tools",
- they are used by many people to compose "documentes, reports, presentations,
- and other forms of media."
-
- In your opinion a major fraction of scientific texts are "insubstantial"
- and do not "really exist".
-
- > If a morphing program for the Mac had 99% of the features needed by
- >low-end video users, but was not nearly as powerful as a similar Amiga
- >morphing package, would you excuse the Mac morphing package as being
- >completely adequate? No, you would flame it as being complete inadequate.
-
- No, we aren't like you.
-
- >built-in a small facility for adjusting the kerning of the output. Most
- >people would not use this facility all the time, but it is pretty damn nice
- >to have when the automatic output isn't quite right.
-
- I say that's a kludge to overcome bad output generated by the WP.
-
- >of MicroSoft Word is the built-in mini typesetting language. It isn't
- >exactly TeX, and most people would not use this facility very often either,
- >but it is also very nice to have once in a while to print an occasional
- >mathematical formula. I could list literally dozens of other examples.
-
- I once tried to make Microsoft Word for Macintosh to output a formula,
- it was pathetic. Good that the capability exists, but you won't like to
- use it more than once in a month.
-
- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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