Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

[Michael J. Lew]

Oh dear, oh dear oh dear! What is it with people and the docs? The 
docs work perfectly well when you know where to look for information. 
That may not always be immediately obvious, but I think that some 
don't spend enough time looking at the arrangement of the information 
before they claim the docs are too hard, or a bottleneck.

In Rev it is very easy to experiment with commands to see how they 
work. Try it.

In Rev it is fairly easy to guess what a command might be. Just try 
it out and see if it works. If it doesn't then type it into the 
dictionary filter and see what comes up.

This list is part of the effective documentation of Revolution (look 
up "effective" keyword in the dictionary ;-). Ask a question here and 
you will generally get a useful answer.

Don't try to tell me that Rev is not good for non-professionals. This 
list is full of non-professionals who are making good things with it.

Regards,
Michael Lew

At 2:29 PM -0500 25/7/05, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
>
>But Rev is advertised as "enterprise-ware" if I'm not mistaken. In
>theory, Rev is great for pros, great for novices, and great for
>do-it-yourself end-users, who possess a modicum of intelligence,
>motivation and computer experience.
>
>Maybe it's fine for Pros, but it's too damned hard for everyone else.
>The documentation presently available is the biggest bottleneck, in
>my opinion. It still seems to me that it just wouldn't be that hard
>or expensive to make it a whole lot better.

-- 
Michael J. Lew

Senior Lecturer
Department of Pharmacology
The University of Melbourne
Parkville 3010
Victoria
Australia

Phone +613 8344 8304

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