From pycyn@aol.com Tue Aug 22 18:22:01 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11809 invoked from network); 23 Aug 2000 01:22:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m4.onelist.org with QMQP; 23 Aug 2000 01:22:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r10.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.10) by mta2 with SMTP; 23 Aug 2000 01:22:00 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r10.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.12.) id a.e6.9f71c9e (4235) for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:21:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 21:21:50 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] emacs etc. To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com In a message dated 00-08-22 16:01:46 EDT, jewel writes: << It's a myth to think that Word is user-friendly. It is probably easier to use for those who can't "read" (ie read documentation) but otherwise it's a very complex piece of machinery (more so than Emacs). >> Depends on what you mean. Word may be very complex in some ways, but I can take it out of the box and get acceptable results knowing no more than basic typing skills. Admittedly its Help files suck, since they never call anything by the name I use for it, but I can usually get around to whatever I want eventually. The important point is that I can't use emacs until after that 2 hours of training and then I still have the hassle to get to those odd special cases. In other words, real people don't -- and don't want to have to -- read documentation. Nor ought they be asked or expected to for standard functions (why ALL programming languages suck). And those are the users to be friendly to.