[GRASS-user] GIS software popularity ranking: http://gisgeography.com/mapping-out-gis-software-landscape

[Dave Roberts]

Sadly, it's not just Microsoft users that take the GUI view.  A couple 
of years ago GRASS was reviewed in Linux Journal and they didn't even 
mention it was scriptable.  I wrote a letter to the editor to point that 
out and they responded that that was minimally interesting.

Dave Roberts

On 09/26/16 06:55, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Sep 2016, Blumentrath, Stefan wrote:
>
>> FYI, I could not resist to also commenting on the GRASS "review" here:
>
>> Obviously, the authors of the review seem to be lost in new
>> surroundings.
>
> Stefan,
>
>   When you realize that the majority of computer users who write
> articles or
> reviews for the Web know only Microsoft's OSes the author's 'cons' make
> perfect sense.
>
>   Too many users know only to point-and-click, drag-and-drop, and work in a
> pretty GUI. The idea of typing something on a command line is not only
> foreigh, but frightening; many have never done so before. When you see
> complaints such as 'the toolbars are in a different place' and 'handles
> coordinate systems in different locations' it is obvious that the writer is
> very limited in understanding what's important: function over form.
>
>   I read reviews like this and know to ignore them. Those readers who
> accept
> such reviews at face value are equally naive. The focus on the user
> interface is typical of those who were taught superficial use of an
> application without fully understanding how to use it to solve problems.
> The
> analogy I use when texplaing my GIS or statistical tools to clients and
> others is that one can teach someone how to use a word processor but that
> does not make him a writer.
>
> Rich
>
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