X11 bashing

Jeff Leyser jeffl at NCoast.ORG
Tue Apr 30 03:18:43 AEST 1991


In post <226 at bria.UUCP>, uunet!bria!mike says:
!!In an article, lm at slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
!!>Think carefully before you flame me - think hard about the Mac.  The reason 
!!>that *users* like the Mac is due, in part, to the consistent look and feel
!!>of the user interface.
!!
!!This is the old double-edged sword of user versus programmer usability.
!!With the Mac, you had a machine that people loved to *use* but programmers
!!*despised* programming.

Bull.  Lots and lots of very talented folks enjoy programming AND using
the Mac.  If all "programmers *despised* [programming]" the Mac, there
wouldn't be a whole hell of a lot for other people to "[love] to *use*".

This has absolutely nothing to do with internals (and hasn't for about 2
weeks now).  Follow-up to alt.religion.computers.
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Jeff Leyser                                     jeffl at NCoast.ORG



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