[ic] Frustrated with IC 4.8

[IC-Admin]

On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Jim Balcom wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Thore Karlsen wrote:
> 
> TK>>You are not the only one, I'm having the same problems. The documentation is
> TK>>worthless, that's the only way to describe it. Open source may be free
> TK>>initially, but I'm starting to wonder if we shouldn't have gone with a well
> TK>>documented commercial solution instead. _Time_ certainly isn't free, and you
> TK>>need a lot of time to experiment to get things to work in Interchange.
> 
> I fully agree!
> 
> Stop all development. Write coherent documentation. Release the package for
> a fee. Start new development and sell upgrades.
> 
> I'd rather pay the people at Akopia for a product that is up and running
> quickly, than to waste a lot of my time spinning my wheels.
> 
> -= Jim =-
> 


The would be the beginning of the end. It doesn't make sense. It's not the
responsibility of the developer to make sure, that the documentation gets
understood by everybody  independent of their level of knowledge or
expertise. 

There is no science, where the scientist adapt to the level of
understanding of a highschool student, just to make sure everybody
can understand quantum physics. If a chemist develops a drug his
documentation for that drug will not be watered down to a level
a ninth grader can read it like a science fiction novel. 

Somewhere along the road you can understand, that it's up to you to 
learn the tools you need. I wouldn't know any field where that wouldn't
be the same.   

Birgitt Funk