> >There is an ineluctable conflict between power and ease of use. > > That's a copout.
I agree. Everyone who has used SimpList knows it makes ISPF *MUCH* more powerful and *MUCH* easier to use. Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/program-development/simplist.html > Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 10:03:12 -0500 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: OT? Opinion article on software design being "deliberately > unfriendly" > To: [email protected] > > In > <CAE1XxDHfukQr+goYTqy65g=c50ffjoofq0bzvb5d5ewf8rj...@mail.gmail.com>, > on 11/27/2013 > at 09:12 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said: > > > >Steve Comstock's maxim, 'user friendly means programmer difficult' > >is on the mark. > > Or at least close; making it user friendly certainly takes work, but > it requires work intelligently directed towards that goal. I've seen > plenty of cases where large amounts of misguided (IMHO) effort went > towards a user hostile product. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
