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From: samir@drufl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: "user-friendly" considered exciting
Message-ID: <671@drufl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Sep-83 15:20:37 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 26 15:20:37 1983
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Your humorous remark regarding "user-affectionate" software has more
meaning than you may think. Computer-novice people, when they start out
with computers, describe them as "rude", "unfriendly" and "curt". And
also I have heard remarks like "it (computer) doesn't like me!". For
computer-novice people, I would rather have the computer be
"affectionate" than "curt". And as they become more comfortable with
computers a variable like $RELATIONSHIP can change the interaction.

These are my personal opinions.

				Samir Shah
				AT&T Information Systems, Denver.
				drufl!samir