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From: altinbay@netcom.com (John Altinbay)
Subject: Re: My opinion of ST/V is going down fast...
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Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 13:58:34 GMT
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In article <3snu22$1pf@stratus.CAM.ORG> vbykov@CAM.ORG (Vassili Bykov) writes:
>
>I would say the actual problem you've just run into is that 1) using
>(productively) a language, like any other tool, requires expertise and 2)
>expertise is acquired through experience, not (only) books. 
>

That may well be, but that's no excuse for the vendor to supply little
and/or incorrect information about the use of their product.  This
is not the only place where this particular product's documentation 
simply falls apart.

If you can't figure it out reasonably well from the book, you will
likely not get the experience, as you will get so frustrated that
you will abandon it.

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