2010/5/2 Michael Haupt <mhaupt at gmail.com>:
> Hi Ian,

Hi Michael,

> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:37 PM, Ian Trudel <ian.trudel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It is an unexpected comment from a German. My experience in the German
>> market made it clear Germans demand high-quality writings — in German
>> that is. The companies I have worked for were paying top dollars for
>> near-perfect German writings, from advertisement to documentation.
>
> see, that's what stereotypes are for: being reconsidered. :-)

I see. Companies however collect demographic data and it makes sense
to consider such feedback. The important is to make a decision in a
knowledgeable manner. Spell checker could be entirely excluded but at
least it would be a decision taken in knowledge of its advantages and
disadvantages. :)

> I think it is much more important to get some documentation available.
> Polishing is always possible. There is no business contract involved
> here, and no $$$ lurking. At least not for me.

Some documentation is already available: http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak

Polishing did not happen.

o_O

>> My point is that we have more to gain to do it right from the ground
>> up. The efforts required to interface with a spellchecker library is
>> much less now than rewriting documentation later. ...
>
> Correct spelling alone doesn't make good quality, does it?

You're right. Every detail matters to make good quality. *grin*

> Best,
>
> Michael

Quality is something I take at heart and I usually refrain from
releasing anything that does not match a minimum quality standard as
far as open source contribution goes and I release commercial work
only when it matches my highest quality standard. A spell checker is
among the tools I use to write documentation, articles, etc. I will
survive if it's not in our HelpSystem but I know it will become an
additional hurdle to me. I will probably end up writing in OpenOffice
and transfer back in Squeak. Painful.

Anyway, when are we getting HelpSystem integrated to the trunk again?
We could be typing in there instead. :)))

Ian.
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