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From: sbc@wucs1.wustl.edu (Steve B Cousins)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.shells
Subject: Nexpert Object
Keywords: Nexpert, Mac II, bad documentation
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Date: 22 Jun 89 04:19:38 GMT
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Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO
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Posted-Date: Fri Jun 23 11:18:41 GMT 1989

I've begun to look seriously at Nexpert recently, and am wondering
what people who have used it for a while think of it.  My reaction
is that the program gives you a lot, but the documentation is 
really verbose and poorly written.  I found that I had to read
through almost the entire manual before I began to have a grasp
of the system.

I guess you could argue that it takes a while to understand because
it offers so much, (the KEE argument) but I summarized it for a
roomful of people in about an hour and it doesn't seem to be too much
of a jump if people understand rules and frames.

Have others had the same impression of the manual?  Is there a summary
out there somewhere (the manual has a primer chapter, which is just one
of these "now click on the rounded button, now type 'blah blah blah'",
etc. chapters, and doesn't give much of an overview.

I do really like what I've seen of the software so far, it's just a
shame the manual doesn't match.

Steve Cousins			sbc@wucs1.wustl.edu
Washington University		Opinions are my own, etc.