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Article #29327Re: 'Virtual' Folders - good idea!!
From: Simon Peter Gatrall
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1988 06:37
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 1988 06:37
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The thing that everyone who has been so enthusiastic about this idea is forgetting is that it is hard to make complicated features like these transparent. The more "features" you add the harder it is to make a consistent, clear interface. I think this is the biggest problem facing software developers right now. When the Mac first came out, it was clean, and simple. Now, the "machine for the rest of us" is getting almost as bad as IBM. Instead of the trend of bigger and bigger systems, and bigger and bigger applications, Apple needs to reevaluate its whole system. It would be better if software could be even more compatible than it is now so that you could use many small applications as building blocks, instead of these big messy programs. Whenever you find people making keyboard macro programs and all sorts of add on features to "symplify" using a computer, you know something is wrong. People have a tendency to cure the symptoms of problems instead of the causes. -Simon Gatrall
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!sg1q+ From: sg1q+@andrew.cmu.edu (Simon Peter Gatrall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: 'Virtual' Folders - good idea!! Message-ID: <0Wiq4jy00Xc-16w0=y@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 19 Jun 88 06:37:35 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 21 In-Reply-To: <5942@pyr.gatech.EDU>