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Subject: Waterloo Command Syntax policy - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 15-Sep-83 03:37:12 EDT
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hp-dcde!jack    Sep 12 17:25:00 1983

The Waterloo Command Syntax policy document says:

	Designers of new commands at Waterloo  therefore  ask  themselves
	"What  does  the  user  want  to  do   to  a  particular object?"
	rather  than  "What's  the simplest way of writing this program?"

My suspicion is that the designers ask themselves:

	Who the h*** cares about the stupid users, anyway???


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					-Jack Applin
					 (allegra!hplabs!hp-dcd!jack)