Robert Jonsson wrote:
> On Saturday 01 Apr 2006 23:16, Christoph Eckert wrote:
>>>> I agree with you that programmers are terrible at interface design.
>>> what are you talking about! one look at vi proves otherwise :-)
>> well, the vi-team surely includes a usability expert ;-) .
>>
>> vi really is simple to use; the user only needs to learn some simple
>> commands:
>>
>> x
>> i
>> ESC
>>
>> :wq
or shift-z-z (much faster)
>> and last bur not least
>>
>> :q!
>
> I get a feeling there's supposed to be some irony here, but I don't know what
> it is.
I think we're all 100% serious here :-)
(just in case you don't know about vi - it's an editor with interface
that is an absolute heaven if you know how to use it but a total hell
for any novice, I mentioned it as an example of an interface done by
programmers for programmers)
erik
Received on Mon Apr 3 04:15:04 2006
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