William Chops Westfield wrote:
>     Evidently you have had the same problems with Eagle as me - many of the
>     commands are counter-intuitive, and compared to some older software (DOS,
>     not windoze), it's dreadful!  The only thing in its' favour is price!
>
> Also in it's favor is that it is IMPROVING.  When I first tried Eagle, there
> was version 3.5x or so, and I found the learning curve so steep that I wrote
> it off as unusable (that was back when the tutorial was based on the
> command-line versions for most commands.)  More recently, when I tried 4.x,
> it was MUCH BETTER.  Most things are now somewhat intuitive and available
> via a GUI, and the library search capability is quite nice.  There remain
> three annoyances:
>
> 1) "wire" vs "net" for connecting signals.  Hmm.  Maybe I should download
>    the German language version and see if I remember enough German to tell
>    whether this is wholely a language/translation issue.  You can get used
>    to this one pretty quickly, though.

That will not help, the german version contains the same english
program, only the help is in german. And they don't have any better
explanation in there...

> 2) The whole "copy" thing.  It's not that it's BAD, really, it's just quite
>    different than ... every window system ever written.  Jarringly so.
>    (don't forget all those gates that you can't "duplicate" but CAN
>    group/cut/paste... to copy...)
> 3) Library management.  There are some bandaids for this, but it's still
>    really annoying...  This is supposed to be addressed in 5.x due out
>    sometime next year.
>
> BillW
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Florian Voelzke

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