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There's no rule as to how good a WYSIWYG interface can be. Make one that's more productive than the corresponding text interface and we'll use it. Hackers aren'
by narag 12y ago
There's no rule as to how good a WYSIWYG interface can be. Make one that's more productive than the corresponding text interface and we'll use it. Hackers aren't holding back anything.
- TuringTest 12y agoAre you sure of that? Object orientation was a visual programming environment at first (see Smalltalk), and look at what hackers "from the Unix tradition" have made of it. ;-)
- narag 12y agoSome problems and their evolution is better understood if you focus on what's wrong instead of what's right. Either you have every requirement covered or you're going to fail. There ain't no justice here. You may have created some brilliant architecture, object system, whatever. But if --let's say-- it's too slow, people won't use it.