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OTOH pointing and grunting may be preferable in unfamiliar territory, e.g., at a restaurant where you can’t read the menu but pictures are provided.

• enriquto 8y ago
  Sure, but in a professional setting, on your own work, it is completely unacceptable. Imagine if musicians did the same as computer scientists: all the keys, strings and holes in all the instruments would be labelled wit the note that they play. Difficult instruments like the clarinet would be rejected and deemed "obsolete" and non user-friendly. Young musicians would rally against the old musical notation, and would switch to a colored animated markup that only works inside new versions of ipads. That would be laughable, wouldn't it? Don't try to do the same with computers please. Learn the tools of your trade and master them. Do not fight against powerful tools because they need some training to use. Do not require "discoverability" for professional tools.
  • mkesper 8y ago
    Discoverability is a good thing, though! And one place where emacs is much better than others, too.
    • rbanffy 8y ago
      It's like you could open a clarinet and inspect the physics that make the sound in a clear, explicit written form.
    • enriquto 8y ago
      Discoverability is not bad in itself, only when it hinders other things, or when it becomes the main goal. Only toys have discoverability as a main feature.