From: Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
To: zsh-users@sunsite.dk (Zsh users list)
Subject: Re: Rough Draft of Article on Writing Completion Functions
Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:56:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9956.1018004175@csr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Joakim Ryden"'s message of "Fri, 05 Apr 2002 05:45:00 CDT." <20020405104500.GA8357@forumone.com>
Joakim Ryden wrote:
> isn't this the constant tech (user) problem? when was the last time you
> heard a user ask The Right Question[tm]? kind of a chicken/egg thing;
> the techie can't read the user's mind and the user doesn't know how to
> formulate his questionsi/comments.
Yes, indeed, although what usually happens is the user finds out
eventually, somehow, what they wanted to know right at the start but
didn't. At this point they are in a good position to say how this
information should have been passed on. Unfortunately the relief at
finding out what they needed to know is usually such that they don't.
Well, I often don't.
--
Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> Software Engineer
CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 392070
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-05 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-04 23:49 John Beppu
2002-04-05 9:57 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-04-05 10:01 ` Peter Stephenson
2002-04-05 10:45 ` Joakim Ryden
2002-04-05 10:56 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2002-04-05 11:12 ` Joakim Ryden
2002-04-05 18:43 ` Stuff I don't understand Will Sargent
2002-04-09 9:56 ` Sven Wischnowsky
2002-04-09 11:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2002-04-11 20:04 ` Rough Draft of Article on Writing Completion Functions John Beppu
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