Re: MAGE argh !

A.P.N. de Boer (deboer@bio.vu.nl)
Sun, 5 Feb 1995 01:04:21 +0100

> Imagine that you are the author of MAGE (Dave Richardson, who is
>a consultant on this course) and you just received this message. It
>would make you feel pretty sick. I shall explain some of the background
>and hope that you understand that criticism like yours isn't helpful.

I'm sorry if I have offended anyone, especially Dave Richardson, it was not
my intention. I think the MAGE concept is a very good one and I know it is
a big problem to make a program for Unix, PC and Mac platforms.
I was just somewhat dissapointed with the interface and the strange error
messages I have encountered during my Mage use and also not seen a
possibility to resolve the errors.
I realy am a spoiled MAC user who has seen a lot a great molecular biology
programs beeing released in the public domain and even contributed a very
small program in the public domain (for UNIX csh of all OS ;-) called
mailfasta.

I'm really looking forward how the course developes and hope I have put out
any developing flames ;-)

Sincerely, Thon

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