mandaboo opened this issue on Feb 03, 2005 ยท 31 posts
Phantast posted Thu, 03 February 2005 at 5:33 PM
Oh, I know that Vue 4 Pro does a hell of a lot more than fix some of the poor design in Vue 4. My point is that e-on should simply have fixed the features in Vue 4 at the same time. One shouldn't have to shell out for all the extras in Pro just to get a version of Vue 4 that behaves sensibly. The point about professionalism has been misinterpreted. I would say that professionalism is about standards. It's about making thoughtful, well-designed interfaces. I can give other examples of how Vue simply goes against principles of good software design, in ways that "professional" software should not err. It's careless, it's slipshod. Any decent program should be able to remember where you store different types of file. It's not a matter of "e-on has limited resources". Making a program aware of your work paths is trivially easy. Really, really simple. I've done it myself, and I'm not a professional programmer. Not doing it is sloppy. The fact that Microsoft can't be bothered to it doesn't mean it isn't sloppy. I wouldn't hold Microsoft programs up as an example of good programming practice - they just have huge marketing muscle.