[Info-vax] [OT] Abbreviations, was: Re: Desperately Seeking OpenVMS ecosystem

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

David Froble wrote 2013-12-08 04:57:
> johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
>
>> for anyone allegedly knowledgeable in serious IT to claim to not know
>> what PPT implies (in this context) is, at best, surprising.
>
> That really is NOT the issue.
>
> The art / science of writing is to impart information to the readers. When
> doing so, it is counter productive to do anything that might confuse the
> reader, or even to break the readers concentration on the subject.
>
> So, when reading the post, when I came to PPT I had to stop and try to
> determine what that was.  Yeah, I got it, but, it interupted my reading of
> the post, and my concentration on the subject matter.
>
> In my opinion the writer did not do his / her best to inform the reader.
>   This is poor writing technique.

Maybe so.

But was you forced to write *another* post asking what it ment?

I do not belive that Mr Gilbert, as a (as far as I understand)
known presenter himself, whould *NOT* know what a PPT file is.
*That* was my point. It was a post that only further puts VMS
(and the people working with it) away it that dusty corner with
old stuff ready to ship to the museum/scrapyard. Together with
those that still can not spell Windows correctly. Why do I care...