Re: inform designer's manual problems


29 Dec 1995 00:45:38 GMT

In <4bvcgt$qb4@joker.rz.hu-berlin.de> h0142kdd@joker.rz.hu-berlin.de
(Paul David Doherty) writes:
>Come on... First there's a long thread about how terribly unfair it
>is to post bug reports, and now you can't even criticise the Inform
>manual without getting lambasted. Lighten up, folks :-)

This made me think. Suddenly, I've changed conclusions about the
original article. Now I think it's a clever parody of the type of
brutal scrutiny that we put the games themselves under. Why shouldn't
we treat our manuals the same way? :) If this is the case, bravo to
the wit of the author.

-- 
John Baker
"What the hell does that mean?  Huh?  'China is here.'?
 I don't even know what the hell that means!"
        - Jack Burton