Re: A86: CAS project

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Subject: Re: A86: CAS project
From: ZeromusMog@aol.com
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:49:49 EDT
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In a message dated 4/2/99 5:06:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
e1066@sherbtel.net writes:

> you'll actually be inputting the stuff in pretty
>  print... surprisingly this will make it easier for me because I won't have
>  to parse (is that the right word?) a string to get things.

That can be a REAL interface nightmare... while it sounds really cool to be 
able to type things in pretty print, it can also be incredibly frusturating 
when the program insists that you follow it's own rules for putting stuff in 
parenthesis, square roots, etc., not to mention when it complains about 
things when you're not done with the equasion yet! If you've ever used the 
Power Macintosh's little graphing calculator thingie, you probably know what 
I mean. If you do indeed make it input in pretty print, make sure that you 
spend extra time making it easy to use, and not too fussy...

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