On 1 October 2006 at 08:53, Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | On 10/1/06, Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Gabor Grothendieck wrote: | > > This would seem to violate the user interface stereotype that | > > command lines are case insensitive on Windows. | > | > This is an improvement. R tries to be as unique as possible on all | > platforms. | | Not sure what the above means but if you mean it works the same | on all platforms that is an error in the design of the software in my view. | The objective should be that it fits into the environment its working in. | | Any Windows user can tell the difference between "clunky" UNIX-derived | software which does not feel right on the Windows platform and | software that adapts its interface to work like all other Windows programs | in that environment.
Generally speaking, I think many of us would beg to differ and much rather (continue to) see consistency of R across platforms. Personally speaking, I would think that taking what I consider to be a clunky OS and UI to be the gold standard as somewhat questionable. But that may just be me. Cheers, Dirk -- Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something. -- Thomas A. Edison ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel