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On Sep 8, 2015, at 2:33 PM, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

>> 
>> It's the cost of being able to do things that the developers never
>> imagined.
> 
> Yeah, I'm just saying we're seeing that cost now.

But the alternative has its own costs. The single most common pattern of user query here is “How do I get pcb to draw [insert perfectly reasonable geometric object].” And the answer is usually “pcb can’t do that”. The cost of not giving users control is that you prevent them from doing what they need.

John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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