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SAP's ugly green, old style-UI screens are wonderfully optimised for data-entry. You can be ultra-fast. It's like VIM. It's like driving at 300 mph. Its all th
by lenkite 7y ago
SAP's ugly green, old style-UI screens are wonderfully optimised for data-entry. You can be ultra-fast. It's like VIM. It's like driving at 300 mph.
Its all the new fangled dumbed-down, web-ui's that is sheer crap and leaves your head scratching.
Well..the old UI's were coded by old-school, C programmers who started their career in the 70s and 80s. They even wrote a multi-process Erlang style kernel to back the application programming. Performance came naturally from their gut.
Nowadays, we get Electron and congratulate ourselves.
- huffmsa 7y agoSaw a big write-up somewhere about this. It's easy to learn the muscle memories for various patterns on a text only UI, and you can become extremely fast. But almost no one is fast with a mouse based GUI
- willhslade 7y agoExcel. Indeed.
- arethuza 7y agoI did once get an explanation of how SAP screens work when a former employer was considering buying SAP ERP - it reminded me at the time of how IBM mainframe terminals work.