Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Subject: Everything about Inf
From: tim.middleton@canrem.com (Tim Middleton)
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 95 12:38:00 -0500
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 SE= I like the way Graham Nelson described it in the introduction: "[some
 SE= parts] are both leaden _and_ patronizing".   The style of it is
 SE= excellent and just feels right for the subject.

Yes, I like Graham's style of prose writing as well. A friend of mine, who
shall remain nameless, finds it sounding a bit pretentious--but he's crazy.
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I feel bad about my previous critical post about the manual. I still believe
in those criticisms (and a few more), but I still feel bad about it! I have
written shorter documentation for small programs and personally find manual
writing to be an absolutely excruciating exercise. That makes me feel even
worse for criticising some else's effort! Argh. I don't want to leave the
impression that i'm a complete crank who isn't eternally grateful!

On a completely different topic... although along the lines of learning
inform. Gareth Rees' "Through the Looking Glass" tutorial on his WWW page
is pretty good, except for a few confusing places; as far as it goes (one
room). Although one really has to know the basics of Inform before one can
probably begin to tackle it.


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