[GRASS5] A naive opinion on how grass *should* work

[Russell Nelson]

Carl Worth writes:
 > Again, the principles should be:
 > 
 > 	Provide sane defaults for everything.
 > 
 > 	Don't require the user to provide more information than is
 > 	truly necessary to get the job done. The job might not be done
 > 	in the most optimal fashion, but rely on the sane defaults,
 > 	(see above), to still be able to function with less user
 > 	input.
 > 
 > 	Never destroy information without the user explicitly
 > 	requesting it.

I agree with everything Carl said above.

I'm a little disturbed by some of what some people have written.
There seems to be this idea of "Well, GIS is hard, so don't be
surprised if GRASS isn't easy to use."  I think that's entirely the
wrong idea.  It should be exactly the other way around: "Well, GIS is
hard, so we should make GRASS easy to use."

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