On 5/31/12 10:26 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
> On 5/31/2012 10:12 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
>> How about summing this all up as "simply simple" vs "deceptively simple" ?
> Yes, but you have to distinguish "for whom?" (01)
Its always relative, and inherently subjective :-) (02)
> For years, people said
> that Unix could never be user friendly. But now, most of the most
> user friendly tools are built on some version of Unix. (03)
Yes. (04)
>
> Another way to put it: you can't have a system that's user friendly
> for end users unless it is user friendly for the Geeks. (05)
Yes, so "deceptively simple" has to serve both profiles, so to speak.
This is why the Web works like no other system before it re., mass
adoption. (06)
BTW -- Apple produces nice looking jails via the "reality distortion
field" of the late Steve Jobs . I hope it will get this part of its DNA
fixed at some point in the future :-) (07)
Kingsley
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> John
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