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Perhaps users want to use apps without needing to program apps? Perhaps some want to play in a garden without needing to dig and plant and weed and…

• t0suj4 4y ago
  I think you shouldn't need to program if you don't want to understand the problem domain.
  • igouy 4y ago
    Do you think someone should need to program if they want to understand the problem domain?
    • macintux 4y ago
      Speaking for myself, I’ve never found a better way to understand something new.
      • igouy 4y ago
        Perhaps a way to understand abstract categories.
• carapace 4y ago
  > Multics Emacs proved to be a great success—programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program. ~ https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html