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From: lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Art vs. Engineering
Keywords: metaphors
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Date: 14 May 91 21:30:57 GMT
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dlw@Atherton.COM (David Williams) writes:
>Sounds reasonable, but I like the film analogy as well, perhaps because it
>might get us to improve how we interact with our user community. I mean,
>notice that we don't have user MANUALS and training classes for either
>films or video games?

Ahh, but there ARE user manuals for video games...  Have been ever 
since the games got tricky, instead of just faster.  One of the 
first was for PacMan, I think.  They're usually not written by the vendor.

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