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From: magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Computers for users not programmers
Message-ID: <1991Jan29.085838.656@lth.se>
Date: 29 Jan 91 08:58:38 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.112723.15274@lth.se> <12830@lanl.gov>
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In article <12830@lanl.gov> jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles) writes:
>From article <1991Jan28.112723.15274@lth.se>, by magnus%thep.lu.se@Urd.lth.se (Magnus Olsson):
>> [...]
>> Users aren't stupid (at least, not most of them). However, most of them lack
>> the energy and motivation to think like programmers.  [...]
>
>It has nothing to do with motivation or intelligence.  It's just a matter
>of cost-effectiveness.  If it takes longer to learn to do something than
>the value of being able to do it - it's _more_ intelligent _not_ to
>learn it.

Well, that's part of what I meant by `motivation' - if you've come to the
conclusion that something isn't worth learning, you're not very motivated,
are you?

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