Re: World's worst software. What's decent?

From: Robert Hoffman (bob_at__I_Get_too_much_spam.com)
Date: 10/17/04 

Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:21:50 -0400

Nothing actually WRONG with Engilsh English. Its a symptom however.
The USA is probably the world's largest market for CAD at the moment.
If a software vendor can't be troubled to understand and accomodate the
local idiom, it bothers me. Eagle, for example. Badly translated
prompts from German and a very different expectation about the user
interface. "User is please to click the button right of the mouse
mechanism at this time." CAdInt has a wierd non-conforming user
interface translated from Swedish. In Microsoft Word, I can generate a
document faster than I could with pencil and paper. I expect that I can
render a schemetic or a PC board faster with CAD than I can by hand.
Not so. I can draw with a template faster and layout with tape and dots
faster than most PCB CAD programs I've tried. I need something that
increases my productivity. Something I have to fight, or needs
extensive training for me to accomodate its quirks is not acceptable.
It has to fit me. not vice-versa.

Nothing really objectionable about having some minor spelling
differences, but the fact they won't bother to customize to suit such a
major market does bother me. I have not tried Easy PC yet, but I will.

Pooh Bear wrote:
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> Robert Hoffman wrote:
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> > Is there ANYTHING out there that:....... is written in American English
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> Anything wrong with English English ?
>
> Graham