Re: Resources (Re: Sed)

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <1sbhtq$gi6@altitude.HIP.CAM.ORG> vandry@CAM.ORG (Phillip Vandry) writes:
>stc7@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Steven T Chiang) writes:
>
>>	Nah, then you'd have cases where users would delete files that
>>are needed by the program or any variation of that theme.  If somebody
>>deletes the whole file, they can't launch the program... :)
>
>If you assume users are going to do stupid things you are (1) insulting
>the user's intelligence (2) limiting yourself to novice-safe systems.

The "Do as I say, not as I do" award goes to Steve Chiang for shipping DuelTris
with a veritible plethora of data files. :-)

As for Phil, users are far stupider than you can possibly imagine.  Once you
release something with a wider audience than just GNO users, you'll realise
that very very quickly.


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