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And another thing people should learn from that, never underestimate secretaries, accountants etc. It is often good to limit what non admins can do to the syst

And another thing people should learn from that, never underestimate secretaries, accountants etc. It is often good to limit what non admins can do to the system, servers, their computer os etc. We should also limit who has access to sensitive data. But I think often companies could be more productive if they taught their employees to script a bit.

AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y ago
> And another thing people should learn from that, never underestimate secretaries, accountants etc. It is difficult for the modern developer to think of users as anything other than dumb cattle, because doing so would raise ethical concerns about their high-engagement eyeball-farming products.
p_l 7y ago
Back with Multics, secretaries were given Emacs as editor, and they had access to a manual on writing lisp code for it... With no mention anywhere that it was programming in one of the most capable languages of the time (MACLISP on Multics). In short time, many secretaries that honestly believed that "programming wasn't for them and was too hard" had written lots and lots of automation for their daily tasks. Cava was their Hypercard. http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html http://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html