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From: klaus@cnix.uucp (klaus u schallhorn)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Computers for users not programmers
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.104312.15594@cnix.uucp>
Date: 28 Jan 91 10:43:12 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.003505.21615@dsd.es.com> <1991Jan24.222501.7054@research.canon.oz.au> <4488@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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In article <4488@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes:
>In article <1991Jan24.222501.7054@research.canon.oz.au>, andy@research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
>> 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).
>
>There are, unfortunately, some who want the software to do all their thinking
>for them. 
>
And they drive their cars the same way. They probably consume "the sun",
or "the national enquirer" for breakfast. Give 'em a solar calculator,
that'll keep 'em puzzled.

klaus

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>Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
>Phone: (317)494-6054
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