From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a264b2f96d7b6f74 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-27 04:19:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GPS (was Re: ada project dependency tree) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:19:17 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3e56861a$1_1@news.arrakis.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1046348357 15171 129.241.83.78 (27 Feb 2003 12:19:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 12:19:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34663 Date: 2003-02-27T12:19:17+00:00 List-Id: Stephen Leake wrote: > I wish software companies would stop calling these things "intuitive". > Strictly speaking, that means any _human_ would find them simple to > understand. My wife, who is a social worker, does _not_ find GPS > "intuitive"! I find this a bit funny (from Webster) intuition : 2c : the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference .. without evident rational thought.. > What they really mean is "familiar to anyone who has used similar > products". In this case, that means Borland C++ IDE, MS Visual Studio, > ObjectAda IDE, etc. It does _not_ mean Emacs, so _I_ find it > _unfamiliar_ and _frustrating_! But can't you _use_ Emacs with GPS? :-) GPS language-sensitive editor [...] GPS is also integrated with external editors such as Emacs or vi. -- Preben Randhol ---------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/ -- "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov