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From: bet@dukeac.UUCP (Bennett Todd)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: R3 Selection Mechanism -- The emperor has no clothes!
Message-ID: <1413@dukeac.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 14:57:47 GMT
References: <gYQFRmQGG047NGTW0K@athena.mit.edu> <3786@mit-amt>
Reply-To: bet@dukeac.UUCP (Bennett Todd)
Organization: Radiology, Duke Med. Center, Durham, NC
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In article <3786@mit-amt> geek@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Chris Schmandt) writes:
> ...
>             Simplicity should be manifest in the user-interface,
>   NOT in the underlying architecture supporting it.

Is this sentiment common among X supporters?

Truly, comp.windows.x is your group, and I don't want to go picking fights;
I've had to delete my first two tries at posting this article. But does
*anybody* see anything wrong with the above statement, and the design
philosophy it implies? Or am I just really strange in my head (probable:-).

-Bennett
bet@orion.mc.duke.edu