far better situation than madly pulling fire handles , closing down engines and cocking up just because it "used to be done from memory
I guess that 35 years of 737 operation with a QRH policy that required the crew to conduct the Evacuation procedure by recall, has now found to be fatally flawed - according to the above assessment of the new Boeing checklist policy. I don't recall in the simulator any crew "madly pulling fire handles" - although no doubt "cock-ups" occur from time to time.
A competent crew should have no trouble at all remembering the few essential items needed to complete the Evacuation checklist. After all, most pilots have very little difficulty in remembering the many meteorological codes in a TAF... so why should they have difficulty in the Evac checklist?