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Metaphors make the operating system (NewsForge)Metaphors make the operating system (NewsForge)Posted Apr 30, 2003 23:53 UTC (Wed) by tjc (guest, #137)In reply to: Metaphors make the operating system (NewsForge) by dcoolidge Parent article: Metaphors make the operating system (NewsForge) The reason terminal models are bad is that there is too much for a simple user to learn. So what!!!? Just because my neighbor doesn't know how to drive a manual transmission doesn't mean that I have to drive an automatic. Just because he doesn't have the physical coordination to ski doesn't mean that I'm going to give it up. Just because he doesn't appreciate jazz, should I stop listening to it too? So now CLIs are "bad" just because he doesn't understand them either? If we're going to reduce the meaning of "good" to mean the lowest common denominator of what people understand and appreciate, then maybe we should all give up on computer science and go to tractor pulls instead. [/rant]
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Metaphors make the operating system (NewsForge) Posted May 1, 2003 23:27 UTC (Thu) by melauer (guest, #2438) [Link] > If we're going to reduce the meaning of "good" to mean the lowest common> denominator of what people understand and appreciate, then maybe we > should all give up on computer science and go to tractor pulls instead. That's not the definition of "good", but it may be the definition of "good UI design". :) We're really getting off-topic, though. I don't think that anyone argued that the command line has to be easier to use. That's what GUIs are for. The argument was that we could make it more _powerful_.
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