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- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!nott!cunews!jstewart
- From: jstewart@alfred.carleton.ca (John Stewart)
- Subject: Re: Why is NN so common?
- Message-ID: <jstewart.721106209@cunews>
- Keywords: poor design
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <BxAuIy.4qJ@ie.utoronto.ca>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 03:16:49 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In <BxAuIy.4qJ@ie.utoronto.ca> green@ie.utoronto.ca (Marc Green) writes:
-
- >'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.
-
- >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.
-
- >Why is this damned thing so common?
-
- To some extent it is a case of "you get what you pay for". nn is
- distributed for free via anonymous ftp. People who write programs in
- their spare time that they intend to distribute for free generally
- want to develop a program that is useful to sophisticated users
- such as themselves.
-
- Personally I'm very happy with nn because I can scan a large number of
- newsgroups/articles quickly. I have to admit though that some of our
- users have difficulty using it (nn is the only newsreader we teach our
- users).
- --
- John Stewart -- Computing and Communications Services, Carleton University
- Internet: jstewart@ccs.carleton.ca or Mr.Canoehead@algonquin.carleton.ca
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- before the Tories first came to power in 1984."
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