On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 3:26 PM Peter Vollan <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have enough trouble already with that whole text/basic, .DO .BA > thing without hiding it from people. > > Yeah. That's one point of view. The other point of view is that trouble is unavoidable. But code that fixes it and makes things work the way the user expects them to is always welcomed by the users. Remember the parable of "Dune Buggy." He was a user that showed up on the list and we were trying to help get RS232 and file transfers and what not going. He just ran into problem after problem, challenge after challenge, and in the end informed the list that he'd pulled all of the wires out of his Model T and thrown it into the trash. And Dune Buggy was never heard from again. What if we could have remove a lot of those obstacles for him ahead of time so he never even encountered them? IMO, there's a lot to be said for things that "just work". -- John.
