On Mon, 26 Sep 2016, Blumentrath, Stefan wrote:
FYI, I could not resist to also commenting on the GRASS "review" here:
Obviously, the authors of the review seem to be lost in new surroundings.
Stefan, When you realize that the majority of computer users who write articles or reviews for the Web know only Microsoft's OSes the author's 'cons' make perfect sense. Too many users know only to point-and-click, drag-and-drop, and work in a pretty GUI. The idea of typing something on a command line is not only foreigh, but frightening; many have never done so before. When you see complaints such as 'the toolbars are in a different place' and 'handles coordinate systems in different locations' it is obvious that the writer is very limited in understanding what's important: function over form. I read reviews like this and know to ignore them. Those readers who accept such reviews at face value are equally naive. The focus on the user interface is typical of those who were taught superficial use of an application without fully understanding how to use it to solve problems. The analogy I use when texplaing my GIS or statistical tools to clients and others is that one can teach someone how to use a word processor but that does not make him a writer. Rich _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
