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[Banter] What is the worst software you have used for its price?

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T3sl4co1l:
What numbering scheme?  What complexity?  Screw up which?

Offhand I would guess Word is more complex than Altium, in overall design/construction, and depth of development over the years.  But both are pretty well up there.

Herein lies one of the disconnects of software: what we perceive to be simple (i.e., Word), is often unimaginably complex in comparison, all that effort being behind the scenes, hiding that complexity from the user -- or, perhaps, tweaking it to a user-friendly level of complexity, because we certainly should not fool ourselves that graphical design, language, and human interface are simple, either!

Tim

nigelwright7557:

--- Quote from: Benta on May 19, 2022, 06:37:15 pm ---M$ Windows. All versions.

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Windows was written to be highly complex to stop others trying to replace it or copy it.
WPF, .net, .net core, Winforms etc etc all add to the bloatware.

I do a lot of Windows dev work.
Someone somehow cocked up uploading selected files to a website in Visual Studio.
Instead you had to upload the whole website, a real pain and took ages.
I complained and they eventually fixed it.
Only to find on next revision it was back to square one !
FFS !
They fixed it again and then messed it up again
Currently it is back to fixed but who knows for how long.

A few years ago they removed C++ winforms and my program relied on it.
I complained and eventually it was put back in but only as an option.

I am now moved over to .net core which seems better and faster than C#.
Hopefully they wont mess that up or make it obsolete.

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