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From: mk3c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Melinda J. Klump)
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Jeff writes:


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I find it difficult to believe that the power of text can be
ever approached by 'point-and-grunt' user interfaces.  Text
gives us the power to develop and name abstract concepts;
icons don't do this so well.

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Jeff Hultquist		
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then what do you call mathematics? :-)


michael j pastor iii
guest on melinda's account