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There are a lot of people in this thread who are complaining that "$some_program won't Do What I Mean". Sounds familiar: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM
by endgame 14y ago
There are a lot of people in this thread who are complaining that "$some_program won't Do What I Mean".
Sounds familiar: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/DWIM.html
- nollidge 14y agoIt's more than that, though, it's when a program won't DWYM despite an error message indicating that the programmer knew exactly what was meant, but decided not to do it anyway.
- fdr 14y agoSolution: remove all the error messages for common misspellings of what people want to do, or alternatively never deprecate any user interaction choice ever. One may make the argument that removing the default behind 'heroku console' was too pure and not pragmatic enough, but going from strictly what you are writing here, this is the logical implication: "don't write error messages suggesting what I meant, and I'll (apparently?) be happier."