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From: tim@minn-ua.UUCP (Tim Giebelhaus)
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Subject: Re: expert-friendly
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Date: Mon, 17-Oct-83 22:43:51 EDT
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  Menus do not have to be slow.  If it is done badly, then they will be slow.
A menu does not have to show a list of all the commands either.  The part I
like about menus the best is that I only have to press one button to get a
command done.  I refer you again to UCSD Pascal.  The P-code makes some of the
user written programs slow and there are not as many choices as you get on 
very large machines, but I find that I can get most anything done without
much trouble.
  I do, however, agree that long names are a waste of time.  If you have a 
long name, chances are that nobody is going to remember it anyway.