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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!skule.ecf!drill.me!ie.utoronto.ca!green
- From: green@ie.utoronto.ca (Marc Green)
- Subject: Why is NN so common?
- Message-ID: <BxAuIy.4qJ@ie.utoronto.ca>
- Summary: NN is is a very poor piece of software. Why is it so popular?
- Keywords: poor design
- Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Industrial Engineering
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:49:46 GMT
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- 've recent switched to a machine that uses nn and am stunned at what poorly
- designed piece of software it is. It violates just about every human factors
- principle in software design (consistency, dialog closure, smooth error
- handling, etc). And of course, the documentation is a joke.
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- The only good thing about it is that it serves as a source of wonderful
- examples for my software engineering course on how not to design systems.
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- Why is this damned thing so common?
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- Marc Green
- Trent University
-