In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/15/2006
at 08:49 PM, Dave Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>My experience is that 90% of programmers use the upgraded ISPF/PDF
>interface almost immediately after the new option is added to their
>ISPF menu. The other 10% eventually come around, just as they
>eventually came around to using ISPF option 3.4. Human nature is
>such that if a tool is not only far more powerful than whatever they
>were using before, but is also far easier to use, inertia is quickly
>overcome.
That's not my experience; I've seen all too many programmers ignoring
useful ISPF enhancements for many releases. In some cases they will
try them once they see[1] me using them, but in other cases they won't
because it's not what they're used to.
[1] In fact, quietly exploiting features seems to be far more
effective in promulgating their use than trying to talk people
into trying them.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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