Computers for users not programmers
Herman Rubin
hrubin at pop.stat.purdue.edu
Sat Jan 26 01:12:03 AEST 1991
In article <1991Jan24.222501.7054 at research.canon.oz.au>, andy at research.canon.oz.au (Andy Newman) writes:
> In article <13985 at ganymede.inmos.co.uk> conor at inmos.co.uk (Conor O'Neill) writes:
> >A 'user' just wants to run applications.
>
> Aren't you a computer user?
>
> Give (non-programmer) ``users'' some credit ... a user who understands that
> they can construct their own applications by plugging together some tools
> in the correct order would want some easy mechanism to construct pipelines
> (and pipelines aren't the only model).
There are, unfortunately, some who want the software to do all their thinking
for them. It is only those who can be called non-programmers. Anyone who has
to put things together is already doing programming.
As andy points out, even a pipeline is a program. One of the problems I have
with using "packages" is that they do not allow the combining of tools.
--
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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