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From: franka@tekcad.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: expert-friendly: are long names - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 2-Dec-83 10:57:51 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  2 10:57:51 1983
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tekcad!franka    Dec  2 07:57:00 1983

	Laura's view of the world too narrow!?!?!? Come on koved! I use a
computer for one purpose: TO GET THINGS DONE! If a stupid command language
makes me type out a fifty character command so that some brain-damaged man-
ager can remember it, I don't particularly find that system "user-friendly"
to me.
	All of this crap about long command names vs. short command names
is valid ONLY if you assume you must choose between one or the other. I
really can't call a system "user-friendly" unless either:

	1) it has enough different "modes" so that all levels of users have
	   the type of interaction they want (this means VERY large amounts
	   of software)

or	2) it is customizable, so that users can change the system to
	   provide a form of interaction that they are more comfortable
	   with

	So everyone out there that thinks that command languages operate in
an either/or mode, stop wasting my time. If you build customizable systems
or systems with more than one command language, you don't have this stupid
problem.

               				From the truly menacing,
   /- -\       				but usually underestimated,
    <->        				Frank Adrian
               				(tektronix!tekcad!franka)