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From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Computers for users not programmers
Message-ID: <27A58CDB.5E5@tct.uucp>
Date: 29 Jan 91 14:55:22 GMT
References: <1991Jan28.112723.15274@lth.se> <12830@lanl.gov>
Organization: Teltronics/TCT, Sarasota, FL
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According to jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles):
>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.

The problem is making that decision intelligently.  Most users -- most
programmers, for that matter -- have no way to predict accurately the
future value of any given skill.

Users who learn willingly are more likely to pick up something useful
(to them) than those who must have the value of each skill proven to
them before they'll deign to learn it.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT     <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip>
   "All this is conjecture of course, since I *only* post in the nude.
    Nothing comes between me and my t.b.  Nothing."   -- Bill Coderre