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- From: etnrwi@raptus.etn.ericsson.se (Raymond A. Wiker (9482))
- Subject: Re: OS differences and improvements (Was Re: new PC's, what's happening acorn?)
- In-Reply-To: goodwin@edieng.enet.dec.com's message of Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:53:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <ETNRWI.92Aug28115012@raptus.etn.ericsson.se>
- Sender: news@ericsson.se
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- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AS
- References: <1992Aug28.080035.15100@rdg.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 10:50:12 GMT
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- I've been following this discussion on the relative merits on
- operating systems for a while, and I thought I should throw in my 10
- NKr's worth...
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- First of all, maybe I should make my position clear: I work
- with Unix on Sun workstations all day, and I have never seen ANY
- other OS that offers even 30% of the functionality that Unix gives me.
- Unix has been described as "programmer-friendly", and I think that
- about sums it up. You cannot expect that a system with so much power
- should be easy to use by novices, in much the same way that you cannot
- expect a teenager who has just got his drivers' license to be able to
- command a DC-9 (the analogy stinks, I know...)
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- The same sort of thing has been said about Emacs and vi, but
- these editors are INCREDIBLY powerful compared with just about
- anything else. Their "weakness" is that they are difficult to use for
- casual users. In fact, it seems that the most common criticism of
- complex (full-featured, actually) systems/programs is that they are
- difficult to use for people who don't actually use them...
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- //Raymond.
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- Raymond A. Wiker etnrwi@etn.ericsson.se
- C programmers do it with side effects /
- Machine code programmers take it to bits
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