Which you, presumably, as a developer of *customized* solutions can well afford to do. But you can't make a general tool like Rev all things to all people or a programming language version of th Tower of Babel. It cannot both incorporate all domains AND be teachable/learnable.
You can see this problem in the Developer community -- people are initially taught verbose Lingo, but then we they need to do something more advanced, syntax is presented in c.dot.syntax-like.Lingo. It hinders learnability. Are you really arguing that many more consumer-level people are more familiar with card qua board/filter than with card qua card? Judy On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Dar Scott wrote: > > This makes my point. > > To those on the inside, the card metaphor is obvious. To those on the > outside it is just computer jargon until they get to "oh, I get it". > Then they are on the inside and can talk about how obvious it is. > > Besides the potential jargon, there are lots of meanings to the noun > card, and the outsider can only guess which ones apply if not some > sense not known. > > Is a card some board that is plugged in? "Everybody knows computers > have boards." > Is a card something the filters out my mistakes? > Is a card something that tells everybody I'm here. > Is Hypercard very funny? > > There is no way, I'm going to force the card metaphor on my customers. > I learn the terms of their domain. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
