From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] architectures
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:43:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010712124320.BB306199C0@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
> contrary to Tog's advice on this point: with care i suspect
> you can make abstractions simple and effective enough without insisting on
> drawing a tenuous likeness to something in the `real world'.
This is a very deep point. One of the greatest mistakes (or missed opportunities,
or strokes of genius, depending on how you look at it) of the familiar modern
computer interface is the attempt to tie it to real-world objects. Trash cans,
desktops, paper clips: come on! The power of computation lies in its being
abstract, and the drive should be to find ways of working that are not mere
echoes of traditional methods.
-rob
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-12 12:43 rob pike [this message]
2001-07-12 19:45 ` Boyd Roberts
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2001-07-13 2:25 Rick Hohensee
2001-07-12 12:55 forsyth
2001-07-12 11:15 nemo
2001-07-12 20:28 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-13 14:53 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-13 15:11 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-12 10:30 nemo
2001-07-12 10:18 ` Christopher Nielsen
2001-07-12 8:42 forsyth
2001-07-12 13:56 ` Laura Creighton
2001-07-12 16:13 ` Ozan Yigit
2001-07-12 16:33 ` Matt
2001-07-12 18:12 ` Scott Schwartz
2001-07-12 18:16 ` Martin Harriss
2001-07-12 18:43 ` Dan Cross
2001-07-13 14:52 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-13 15:13 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-12 7:15 Sape Mullender
2001-07-12 6:16 okamoto
2001-07-12 7:46 ` pac
2001-07-12 9:59 ` Christopher Nielsen
2001-07-12 5:22 anothy
2001-07-12 8:04 ` Matt
2001-07-12 10:12 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-07-12 13:01 ` Laura Creighton
2001-07-11 23:17 Jonathan Sergent
2001-07-11 17:59 David Gordon Hogan
2001-07-11 17:38 geoff
2001-07-11 18:29 ` Dan Cross
2001-07-11 16:27 jmk
2001-07-11 16:03 jmk
2001-07-11 15:17 nemo
2001-07-11 15:07 bwc
2001-07-11 16:53 ` Mike Haertel
2001-07-11 14:36 anothy
2001-07-11 14:59 ` Theo Honohan
2001-07-11 15:02 ` Matt
2001-07-11 16:52 ` Mike Haertel
2001-07-11 22:58 ` Boyd Roberts
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