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Original to: dmb@xbar.ai.mit.edu
In a message of <04 Dec 1992 15:59:0>, dmb@xbar.ai.mit.edu (3:713/602)
writes:

 d> People want to *use* their software without having to learning much.
 d> They don't want their documents to look like programs or proofs, and
 d> they don't WANT to NEED to know what -fomit-frame-pointer does.
 d> 
 d> TeX: free, powerful, overly-complex, arcane.  Typical of top-of-the-line
 d> free/copylefted software.

It's funny, but we write a great deal (read most) of our documentation using
Qedit... why? Because, like all of these wonderful interface-driven
packages, neither Word nor WordPerfect is stable enough.  

Just tonight, I had to help rescue my boss from word being absolutely
certain that there wasn't enough memory to move the _cursor_, let alone drop
down a menu, with two documents loaded. One 90K long, the other about 3.  On
a 2M machine, with ~610K free to DOS.  

This is a 'leading wordprocessor that everyone on the atari would love to
have.' Not.

As usual, too much time was spent making them look 'pretty' so that
brainless salespeople could sell it to brainless executives and the like,
and not enough making them _work_.

My girlfriend recently calamized her mother's wedding invitations and order
of service.  The latter ran to over a megabyte as a document, and the priest
wanted to know which agency produced and printed them so that he could
recommend them to future couples.  A hacked 520ST and a BJ330.

 d> Dave Baggett

\`miff`                                                       /|\

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