Re: Re: "Do What I Mean" - a suggestion for
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- Subject: [mg97130] Re: [mg97081] Re: "Do What I Mean" - a suggestion for
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 04:23:37 -0500 (EST)
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The database of common errors in Mathematica??? You're looking at it. Bobby On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:51:54 -0600, peter <plindsay.0 at gmail.com> wrote: > well, if you make mathematica *too* easy - everyone's going to be using > it. > Then where will we all be ? > Peter > > 2009/3/4 AES <siegman at stanford.edu> > >> In article <godm42$46k$1 at smc.vnet.net>, >> David Bakin <davidbak at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > DrMajorBob, >> > >> > I think you're missing the point here - and actually, this is exactly >> the >> > point that AES keeps banging on. "It's up to a user to write what he >> means" >> > is small comfort to a user, especially one new to Mathematica, who >> doesn't >> > know how to express what he means. >> >> and can't **easily and quickly** track down that information, in >> documentation that's **matched to his or her needs**. >> >> >> > "DWIM" is a tongue-in-cheek name, not to be taken literally. It is >> just >> a >> > name for an meta-analysis feature that inspects the user's input and >> > proposes similar input forms that may be closer to what the user has >> in >> > mind, based on a database of common errors. >> >> Right. >> >> Given the sophistication of everything else that Wolfram does, I assume >> that it has always done a massive amount of sophisticated user testing, >> in which it presents its (soft)wares to a wide variety of different >> kinds of users, and observes and studies what errors they commonly make >> -- right? >> >> (At least it's my understanding that many other companies do this kind >> of thing, with whatever kind of wares they vend -- right?) >> >> So, the above-mentioned "database of common errors" already exists -- >> right? >> >> > > -- DrMajorBob at bigfoot.com