But then he would have eventually have encountered them, when he tried to load a test file as a basic files into a model T
On Thu, 9 Jan 2020 at 15:34, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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.
