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To:	pete@minster.york.ac.uk
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Subject: Re: Important Features and Alternative Samterms 
Date:	Tue, 25 Jan 1994 10:23:09 -0500
From:	"Ozan S. Yigit" <oz@sis.yorku.ca>


> 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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