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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re:  Intuitive....
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Date: 25 Sep 90 18:30:00 GMT
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The mac reuses several concepts very well.  In particular, all text
entry is editable with the same tools (mouse selection of an insertion
point, character/word selection, deletion, cut/paste), even in
interactive dialogues.

The reason it's intuitive is because the knowledge learned from a
well-written application is immediately reusable in other
applications.  

Once you can manipulate and name files in the finder, you have almost
all the knowledge necessary to crank out a simple term paper in
MacWrite or MS-Word (i.e. entering / editing text, using scrollbars,
copy/paste).