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From: andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman)
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Subject: Re: Computers for users not programmers
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Date: 24 Jan 91 22:25:01 GMT
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In article <13985@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> conor@inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill) writes:
>A 'user' just wants to run applications.

Aren't you a computer user?

Give (non-programmer) ``users'' some credit ... a user who understands that
they can construct their own applications by plugging together some tools
in the correct order would want some easy mechanism to construct pipelines
(and pipelines aren't the only model).




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