Re: Logo is based on 1960s programming language research

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From: Brian Harvey
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 06:05

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bg@dymaxion.ns.ca writes:
>Don't be so quick to throw this one out.  People laughed at GUI's (graphical
>user interfaces) which were based on the premise that people could work better
>with images than just text alone, but they took the world by storm.

I *still* hate GUIs.  Let's see you do "rm *.o" on a Macintoy.  They trade off
making certain things really simple against making *everything but* those few
things completely impossible.

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From: bh@anarres.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Brian Harvey)
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Subject: Re: Logo is based on 1960s programming language research
Date: 5 Aug 1992 06:05:36 GMT
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