Steve Lamb wrote: >Kent West wrote: > > >>The same applies to can openers, car stereos, telephones, entertainment >>centers, and a host of other devices: if you want me to use your >>product, make it easy to use. >> >> > > None of which come close to the compexity of a computer, an OS or even >most the installed programs. Even so many of the above devices come with >documentation and the user, to get pretty much any use of them, needs to read >it. I dislike the notion that pandering to the willfully ignorant in our >societies is a path that we should take. > > > I'm thinking more along the line of entering a command name, such as foo, not knowing how to use it, and it comes back with some info such as "Usage: foo input_file output_file to foo-ify an input-type file to an output-type file; see 'man foo" for examples and more information" rather than just returning to the command prompt with no feedback whatsoever, or worse, "Invalid data".
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