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Author of the linked article speaking. Possibly I should have emphasized the specific claim that junky input devices (e.g. QWERTY keyboard) are merely one symp
by asciilifeform 12y ago
Author of the linked article speaking.
Possibly I should have emphasized the specific claim that junky input devices (e.g. QWERTY keyboard) are merely one symptom of the deprofessionalization of computer programming - rather than the 'alpha and omega' of it.
And, in this case, not only of computer programming. The fact that millions of people who make their living entering natural language text do so with the abominable limb destroyer known as QWERTY is an atrocity. Quite like the case of the radium watch dials and the labourers who went to an early grave making them. Or those who worked in the match factories, before them.
- hunnypot 12y agoI just read through what you had to say about the death of HyperCard. Why do you think Python etc. do not fill the hole HyperCard has left? Is it because of their ever-so-slight price of admission (which tends to push non-professional users away, as compared to the comfortable familiarity of a GUI)?
- asciilifeform 12y agoWhich Python? Ver. 2 or 3? On what machine? With what graphical libraries? How much study would be involved in knowing all (and yes, it matters) of the Python+libs+os aggregate? And does anyone alive know the above aggregate the way a kid can know Hypercard? The 'master of all you survey' feeling of a kid on a raw Commodore-64 (or, to a lesser extent, Hypercard) - matters. If you've never experienced it, you are a blind man. Asking the question re: Python suggests precisely this kind of blindness. I confess that I do not know how to explain sight to a blind man. Perhaps someone else here is up to the task.
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