I think there would still be people who want to be able to type "your synonym here" instead of "sudo." And that would still not help them understand what sudo does and it would still interfere with any attempt they make to research or ask for help.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wrote: > I see. Well then, let's toss out all the graphical OS'es ever written and > go back to command line computing. Is seems the great exiperiment has > failed. > > Bob S > > > On Nov 5, 2015, at 11:25 , Matt Maier <bluebac...@gmail.com<mailto: > bluebac...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > I disagree. All of the responsibility for understanding is on the > programmer. The hard part is teaching the programmer to understand the > software. Once that happens the programmer can easily make the software > understand. The hard part is thinking like software. Giving every single > student a unique set of symbols that minimizes their personal memorization > time is small potatoes compared to teaching them what the thing they > memorized really means. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
