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Wednesday, August 09, 2000, 2:22:00 PM, Joe wrote:
> Correction, Kenneth. No one but you, apparently.
Others were mentioned.
> But is two days really enough time to fairly evaluate a program? Especially a
> program as quirky as TB is?
Thing is it shouldn't be quirky. Two days is enough time. As a perl
hacker I recently started programming in python. To me python was quirky...
compared to perl. After two days of intense discussion with python
programmers on the python newsgroup I found out that my ideas were quirk and
python was actually rather logical.
I've used TB! for over a year and it is still quirky. It has half-buns
implementation all over the place whereas the slick stuff is on features used
by less than 5% of the population. Expected behavior of a lot of "features"
is only expected after you've been bitten by it 20 times. For example, the
non-inheritance of the main window's sort upon the opening of a view folder
window. It is stupid that it isn't set when opened since that is what the
person is looking at. As a result it forces the user to leave open the
message list view and waste screen real-estate just so they can match the
sorting of what they just saw in the main window. It is nice that they are
independent, though, so one can redo sorting on the child window as needed.
> I'm certainly no power user, but with all its quirks (and there are
> many!), TB is head and shoulders better than, say, Eudora Pro, which I used
> for many years. No, I don't know anything about PMMail.
Anything is better than Eudora Pro. However, trust me, PMMail, which
hasn't been seriously updated in close to two years, is nearly as powerful as
TB! is and a lot less quirky. That's saying a lot. Also in several different
polls PMMail was a /VERY/ close second only to TB!. In some cases the two
swapped #1 several times. Know what that tells me? It tells me that if a
program that has gone basically unsupported for almost 2 years is that close
to a program that has 15-20 releases in same time-frame RITLABS really needs
to sit down and consider what they are doing wrong that they are /still/
playing catchup to PMMail.
For me it is obvious: Quirks.
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