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From: mike@bria.UUCP (Michael Stefanik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: X11 bashing
Message-ID: <226@bria.UUCP>
Date: 27 Apr 91 21:45:39 GMT
References: <16818@chaph.usc.edu> <558@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: uunet!bria!mike
Organization: MGI Group International, Los Angeles, CA
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In an article, lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
>Think carefully before you flame me - think hard about the Mac.  The reason 
>that *users* like the Mac is due, in part, to the consistent look and feel
>of the user interface.

This is the old double-edged sword of user versus programmer usability.
With the Mac, you had a machine that people loved to *use* but programmers
*despised* programming.  Obviously this didn't (and will not ever) work.
User friendless at the expense of programmability (or perceived said
programmabilty) is not going to do it.

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Michael Stefanik, MGI Inc, Los Angeles | Opinions stated are never realistic
Title of the week: Systems Engineer    | UUCP: ...!uunet!bria!mike
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