New development library

From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	New development library
Date	2019-04-07 09:25 +1000
Message-ID	<ggsqquF75o1U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)

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One of the biggest bug-bears for any developer is that users come to 
anticipate a particular behaviour from a program. This means that when 
the developer wants to change the behaviour in a future version, they 
need to deal with multiple complaints from users who got used to the 
previous functionality.

To deal with this, I have developed a new library, confuseauser.jar. 
This library allows the developer to specify, for any particular 
operation that the user may perform, a set of possible responses, and 
the library will choose one of them at random. This ensures that the 
user never learns how the application will behave, and consequently that 
they will not object when it changes.

I am fully aware that this technology has already been incorporated into 
multiple aps, but as far as I can tell, no one has patented it, so I 
thought that it made sense to provide a simple interface to the 
developer so that this particular wheel doesn't have to be constantly 
reinvented.

Just a warning, I won't guarantee that future versions of this library 
will do the same thing.

Sylvia.

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