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On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:35:14 +0100, Gilles Tran wrote:
> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospam com> a écrit dans le message de news:
> 47d455a1$1@news.povray.org...
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>> The problem is that much of our "modern" software includes features
>> that no sane user wants to use.
>
> Uh, that's really patronizing.
It wasn't intended to be.
> Featuritis does exist, but it's a too
> common fallacy to think that because one doesn't need certain features
> the're completely useless, like in those funny Slashdot discussions
> where legions of clueless nerds remind everyone that because *** they
> *** are happy using The Gimp to make lolcats everyone using Photoshop is
> an idiot.
It's not a question of "so many features *I* don't need to use", but "so
many features that *most* users don't need to use". Pivottables are an
example, actually - though I use them a lot, most of the spreadsheet
users I work with have no idea even how to use them effectively. I've
had to teach people how to use them because they were doing it by hand.
(Which actually, I realise, doesn't prove my point).
>>I'll admit that if I were to try to do a crosstab with Lotus 1-2-3, I'd
>>not have been able to do it (because the
>>feature wasn't there AFAICR), and that is something I use today that
>>isn't in the older software.
>
> 1-2-3 would be completely useless by modern standards, and not just
> because of crosstab. Really useless, like a brick. And I loved it for
> years, until I switched. You'll pry my bloated Excel from my dead cold
> hands ;)
I don't know that 1-2-3 would be completely useless by modern standards -
I think a lot of tasks that people use Excel for these days aren't much
beyond what 1-2-3 was capable of.
As for what I use, I'm an avowed OpenOffice 2.3 user. You can have your
Excel, oocalc does everything I have a need for, and the price is most
definitely right. ;-)
Jim
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