Re: What's a "ticket"???????
- Posted by euphoric (admin) Sep 10, 2009
- 1288 views
There are people who use or might use Euphoria who are NOT professional programmers.
And if they are going to continue to be programmers, whether amateur or professional, they need to know what a ticket is. By clicking the tab that says "tickets," they will get some continuing education in their chosen hobby/profession.
Derek mentioned that "tickets" is IT jargon, and you assert it's "standard lingo" in the "development community", so that means there can be people who might be drawn to Euphoria who are NOT in either of those, and therefore don't know what it means.
First, appealing to Derek is a logical fallacy. 
(I KEED!)
While it is part of the IT vernacular, it is also part of the development vernacular (I think development is part of IT), and if you're programming with Euphoria, you're a developer/programmer and need to know the vernacular. I hope I used the term "vernacular" correctly here.
All I'm asking is that the word in the BUTTON be changed to something that ANYONE can easily understand;
Our target market is not just "ANYONE," but programmers/developers.
"Tickets" is the easiest and shortest way to explicitly state what the tab's purpose is. If you don't know what a ticket is, you can check the wiki (hopefully somebody will write that article), or you can click the tab and read the short description that will hopefully appear there sometime very soon. 
I don't think "tickets" is confusing, especially since the curious can just click the tab and almost instantly realize what it's for.
