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This is the curse of Windows - non-technical users assume that everything you can do with a computer must be done via the UI. This is perhaps not surprising -
by tragomaskhalos 8y ago
This is the curse of Windows - non-technical users assume that everything you can do with a computer must be done via the UI.
This is perhaps not surprising - in the name of "ease of use" Windows works very hard to shoehorn you down the point and click route.
- snaky 8y agoVisual is more natural, simple and rich way of cognition for human brain than symbolic expressions, there's nothing wrong with it. What's somewhat pity is the fact all the attempts to create any 'visual programming' tools failed miserably. Although we could easily imagine a tool that allows to point a field in any formatted text like INI file, and point the column in Excel where the values should be inserted, and automatically build the regular expression to parse the bunch of such files - that's not visual programming in any way of course, but if such a tool could be extensible enough, and extensible by the same visual way, I don't know but maybe some significant part of users should be interested enough.