Well, I don't think so - but maybe related - or perhaps inversely related....
I usually don't feel "idiot-proof" is "user friendly". I think google.com is user friendly, I don't feel the same about yahoo.com even though (or perhaps because) it presents more information. Friendly is helping me without the intrusion of something like the paper clip guy in MS Word. You know, the one that pops up and says, "It looks like you are writing a suicide note, would you like help with that?" Maybe software can overstep some limit - e.g. when, just now, I typed "google.com" into my Chrome browser it presented me my "iGoogle" page - going more towards Yahoo.com, this doesn't happen in Safari or Firefox, but all the browsers can sometimes be "in your face" with help... Friendly is loading quickly and not leading me through a series of steps to get to my goal. I think J is friendly because it doesn't require hundreds or thousands of statements to do interesting things. It's small/quick enough that I can use it in a dynamic environment such as CGI. Even a few seconds of delay time causes unfriendly feelings. On the other hand - a friend once said, "Computers allow men to make more mistakes faster than any other invention in history, with the possible exception of tequila and hand guns..." - joey At 11:45 PM -0400 11/05/07, Devon McCormick wrote: >Is "user-friendly" what we used to call "idiot-proof"? > >On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Joey K Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I agree on that. The term "user friendly" is much abused and misused. An >> extra click (or 2 or ...), and extra seconds of response time can be fatal >> flaws. >> >> - joey iPa... >> >> >> >> On May 7, 2011, at 2:06 AM, Dejun Guo <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > With cloud computing (TM hype) more popular, we have to think about >> > programming efficiency both in size and speed, because it's paid by IO >> and >> > time. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
