[geeks] SGI users looking for software

[Kurt Huhn]

Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:

> 
> It's not about user friendly versus non-userfriendly.  It is about
> choosing who your users are, then being friendly to them.  For the most
> part, any such application is going to require significant commitment to
> learning them, and I don't see any good way around having such
> requirements.  Granted, such requirements are what everyone needs.
> Others need simple.  And for them there are other programs, where one of
> the greatest features is they cut out what is unlikely to be needed, or
> make it a seperate program (re, the bryce/poser suit).
> 

I respectfully disagree.  Friendliness is not a measure of how useful a
piece of software is, it's a measure of how easy it is to learn and become
adept at.  Lightwave 5.6, for example, is not friendly.  BrylCAD is
downright hostile.  On the other end of the spectrum, Wings is very
friendly.  Rhino practically caters to every whim.  Now, you may have a
point about stripping out unneeded features - but that has nothing to do
with freindliness, it only removes features that aren't necessary to the
target audience.  One could coherently argue that BrylCAD and Rhino are
targeted at the same audience, but there's a huge difference in the
friendlyiness between the two.  

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Kurt
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