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Article #273Re: Re: Standards Update, USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee
From: Moderator, John S. Quarterman
Date: Mon, 07 May 1990 16:47
Date: Mon, 07 May 1990 16:47
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From: Doug Gwyn <uunet!smoke.brl.mil!gwyn> In article <671@longway.TIC.COM> From: decot@hpda.uucp (Dave Decot) >One of the primary motivations for POSIX.2a is the desire to have a >standard set of utilities that a user can learn once, and thereafter >be a "portable user" of those utilities. Utilities designed for END USERS, as opposed to those designed for programmers, should be such that they are very easy to learn. >Prospective employers can already ask employees whether they "know MSWord, >Lotus, and MacPaint", because those are industry-standard utilities. Apart from MacPaint, they don't have well-designed user interfaces either. Most Mac software can be immediately used with NO TRAINING by almost anyone at all familiar with general characteristics of that environment. Trying to standardize details of specific applications within an easy-to-use environment would seem pretty much a waste of time. Conversely, trying to standardize details of a hard-to-use interface would also seem to be a waste of time, since people who would most benefit from that would benefit even more from having a decent user interface instead! Volume-Number: Volume 19, Number 109
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!longway!std-unix From: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM (Moderator, John S. Quarterman) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: Re: Standards Update, USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee Message-ID: <674@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 7 May 90 16:47:14 GMT References: <650@longway.TIC.COM> <671@longway.TIC.COM> Reply-To: std-unix@uunet.uu.net Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory Lines: 23 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)