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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: User Friendliness
Message-ID: <2066@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 21:29:17 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 10 21:29:17 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Organization: System Development Corp. R+D, Santa Monica
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Summary: 

Awhile back someone on this net asked:
< "When you...buy a hammer, do you ask if it is user-friendly?....You
< learn to drive a nail."

I quoted this to one of my friends.  He sent the following answer.

"My experience with computers is almost entirely with word processing.
On computers other than dedicated word processors of high quality, my
experience has been analogous to this situation.

       "I already know how to drive a nail, and my job classification is
clerk-carpenter.  I have been given a new hammer.  The hammerhead is a
corkscrew, which has been reinforced with bailing wire to make it more
durable.  The handle is made of the finest spun sugar, though there is
cladding for it which makes it as durable as a wooden handle and only adds
40 lbs to the weight.  The hammer only works on nails made by the same
manufacturer."  --Dan Goodman

--Lee Gold