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- From: Doug Gwyn <uunet!smoke.brl.mil!gwyn>
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- In article <671@longway.TIC.COM> From: decot@hpda.uucp (Dave Decot)
- >One of the primary motivations for POSIX.2a is the desire to have a
- >standard set of utilities that a user can learn once, and thereafter
- >be a "portable user" of those utilities.
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- Utilities designed for END USERS, as opposed to those designed for
- programmers, should be such that they are very easy to learn.
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- >Prospective employers can already ask employees whether they "know MSWord,
- >Lotus, and MacPaint", because those are industry-standard utilities.
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- Apart from MacPaint, they don't have well-designed user interfaces either.
- Most Mac software can be immediately used with NO TRAINING by almost
- anyone at all familiar with general characteristics of that environment.
- Trying to standardize details of specific applications within an easy-to-use
- environment would seem pretty much a waste of time. Conversely, trying to
- standardize details of a hard-to-use interface would also seem to be a waste
- of time, since people who would most benefit from that would benefit even
- more from having a decent user interface instead!
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- Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 109
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