From: "Ozan S. Yigit" <oz@sis.yorku.ca>
To: pete@minster.york.ac.uk
Cc: sam-fans@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Subject: Re: Important Features and Alternative Samterms
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 10:23:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9401251523.AA27137@sis.yorku.ca> (raw)
> Since the most common complaint on this list seems to be that newcomers
> "love the regular expressions but hate the user interface" or similar,
> perhaps samterms with more familiar interfaces might be the way to
> tempt newcomers into the Sam world; perhaps after using such
> "presentational suger" for a while they might realise that Rob's
> original is quite a lot more elegant than the baroque junk that
> Windows/Mac/Motif etc. place in the way of the user...
i do not think "presentational sugar just for a while" strategies ever
work the way we expect them to. people do not get that sudden "realization"
one would expect, but rather, they stick to the sugar [no pun intended].
what was meant to be temporary becomes permanent.
i happen to think it is a good idea to build other sams and samterms, so
that we can explore other ideas in editing environments. sugar coating the
existing one to make it easier to swallow is a waste of time.
oz
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1994-01-25 15:23 Ozan S. Yigit [this message]
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1994-01-25 11:39 pete
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