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Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?
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Christian Edward Gruber |
Subject: |
Re: Flattened GNUstep structure? |
Date: |
Thu, 11 Jan 2001 00:38:10 -0500 |
Hi Pascal. I respectfully take philosophical exception to your approach
here.
Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> Make a system usable even by a fool and only a fool will use it.
This is an extremely frustrating statement for me. Do smart people not use
toasters, or automobiles either? The above quoted statement is the sort of
anti-human-factors nonesense that keeps smarter stronger healthier
more-robust software from becoming "main-stream" whilst pieces of total crap
become the industry standard.
One of the key benefits of NeXTSTEP in the first place was that both really
really smart people AND complete computer illiterates could use it. My wife
after years of computer phobia became sufficiently courageous enough to
overcome her "neo-luddite" (self described) attitude, because she saw how
elegant, simple, and obvious the NeXTSTEP approach and interface was.
Meanwhile, I was able to do things with its development system that I simply
couldn't have done with my programming resources in (nearly) any other
development system.
> It would be much better to write some documentation about the
> directory structure than to have this discussion and to develop some
> complicated scheme to flatten the directory structure and still keep
> the feature the deep structure implements.
Yes and no. Yes, write the docs. Of course, that's obvious. But don't
develop a complicated scheme to flatten, develop an elegant scheme to
completely insulate the users from the deep structure OR flat structure.
And simplify the structure to the level where it achieves the objectives
elegantly and without excess confusion. If the current system is that level
of simplification, then so be it, but the answer is not to poo-poo those who
would seek a simpler solution.
regards,
Christian.
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, (continued)
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2001/01/09
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- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, Sungjin Chun, 2001/01/09
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, Jonathan Gapen, 2001/01/09
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, Nicola Pero, 2001/01/10
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, Nicola Pero, 2001/01/10
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, Adam Fedor, 2001/01/10
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2001/01/10
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, David Relson, 2001/01/10
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2001/01/10
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?,
Christian Edward Gruber <=
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2001/01/11
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, Philippe C . D . Robert, 2001/01/11
- Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, Jeff Teunissen, 2001/01/15
Re: Flattened GNUstep structure?, Frederic, 2001/01/09
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