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- From: so@brownie.cs.wisc.edu (Bryan S. So)
- Subject: Re: The Problem with UNIX
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.210729.11676@cs.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
- References: <1992Nov9.172715.16367@cs.wisc.edu> <96927@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:07:29 GMT
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- Concerning Don Norman's paper "The Trouble With UNIX", Datamation 27,
- rsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec) writes:
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- >Norman's paper is (a) a decade out-of-date and (b) extraordinarily
- >inaccurate, as it was when published. In my opinion, it represents
- >the uninformed rantings of someone who is simply too lazy to read the
- >manuals and therefore should not be using a computer at all.
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- I agree it's a decade old but can you indicate why it's inaccurate?
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- To me, some problems like "cat a b > b" are obviously undesirable
- designs and still unsolved after more than a decade.
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- Bryan
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