Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/26/22:10:52
Weiqi Gao wrote:
>
> There used to be a formula that states "user friendliness is directly
> proportional to programmer hostilility." Can we translate that into
> "user dumbness is directly proportional to programmer cleverness"? Or
> should it be "user dumbness is directly proportional to programmer
> dumbness"?
I think it's the first one, because the better a programmer does his or
her job, the less intelligence it requires for a user to use the
program. The dumber a programmer is, the more knowledge a user needs to
figure out what to do.
This certainly does explain the Windows phenomenon, btw. :) MS's
_programmers_ are very good; it's the politics at the higher levels that
makes everything so complicated.
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