From: forsyth@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [9fans] User Interface
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 13:56:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010815125234.D869C199F5@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
>>Personally I don't want an interface that has dancing paperclips to
>>tell me how to write a letter but my mum likes it. Things don't always
>>have to be simple to use in the first 5 minutes.
as i think i've said before, my mother saw me using acme, asked for
a demonstration, and liked it. i've shown people how to use the
basics of acme in a matter of minutes not hours (compared to some other things)
and they often weren't technical either. one reason is that it relies on the
composition of a small collection of primitives, each of which is easy to explain and learn quickly.
next reply other threads:[~2001-08-15 12:56 UTC|newest]
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2001-08-15 12:56 forsyth [this message]
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2001-08-20 16:25 anothy
2001-08-20 15:28 Russ Cox
2001-08-20 15:02 anothy
2001-08-20 21:01 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-20 21:10 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-15 15:56 Scott Schwartz
2001-08-15 12:56 forsyth
2001-08-15 5:07 David Gordon Hogan
2001-08-15 17:15 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-14 17:13 anothy
2001-08-14 17:24 ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-08-17 8:48 ` Chet Ramey
2001-08-14 13:15 John Murdie
2001-08-14 14:11 ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-08-14 10:27 Lucio De Re
2001-08-14 12:45 ` pac
2001-08-15 8:34 ` Eric de Redelijkheid
2001-08-15 10:29 ` Re[2]: " Matt
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2001-08-16 8:28 ` Eric de Redelijkheid
2001-08-16 10:26 ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-08-16 11:10 ` Matt
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