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- From: papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD
- Message-ID: <By5unE.EIL@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <98246@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov20.215955.8209@nastar.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 08:38:01 GMT
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- >This is a blanket statement, and therefore somewhat suspect. There are some
- >things that are inherently complex, and no amount of GUIfying can change
- >this. When we have AI, we might be able to hand off some of this complexity,
- >but until then we are stuck with it.
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- >One cannot blame the complexity whooly on a poor user interface.
- >
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- Agreed. But there is a tendancy in this newsgroup to believe that
- poor user interface=power. You and I realize this is not true. Where
- complexity cannot be hidden, it is not (i.e. C program). Where it
- can be, it should (i.e. file management)
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