Re: Re: Useful Dumb User Questions
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- Subject: [mg9115] Re: [mg9057] Re: [mg8988] Useful Dumb User Questions
- From: Mark Evans <evans at gte.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 23:33:27 -0400
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Ernst U. Wallenborn wrote: > > Mark Evans <evans at gte.net> writes: > > > In one day I have received several answers to my post. Three out of > > four are in agreement, while Jens-Peer Kuska's reply is a shining > > example of exactly the condescension I am talking about. > > You mean he didn't agree with you and you have a problem with that. JPK offered one straw-man argument, and this is another one. > > > > The comparison of Mathematica with Microsoft Windows is nearly exact. > > Both products have a commanding lead in their field, both are hard to > > use in many ways, and both have a lot of hidden behaviors that only the > > home company knows about. Both also claim to make your life easier! > > And both are totally different products with totally different > goals. > > I adduced four precise parallels, and there may be more. I would only call two products "totally" different if no parallels existed between them. > [snip] > > Version 3 is an amazing product, but keep in mind that other programs > > have allowed typset input for a long time, although I won't name names > > because of the way in which this newsgroup is moderated. > > Is it? I didn't know that. > > -- > Ernst-Udo Wallenborn > Laboratorium fuer Physikalische Chemie > ETH Zuerich That's why I qualified my comments. Mark