From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: compiling emacs 19.34
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 18:30:13 -0800
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Weiqi Gao wrote:
> 
> There used to be a formula that states "user friendliness is directly
> proportional to programmer hostilility."  Can we translate that into
> "user dumbness is directly proportional to programmer cleverness"?  Or
> should it be "user dumbness is directly proportional to programmer
> dumbness"?

I think it's the first one, because the better a programmer does his or
her job, the less intelligence it requires for a user to use the
program.  The dumber a programmer is, the more knowledge a user needs to
figure out what to do.

This certainly does explain the Windows phenomenon, btw.  :)  MS's
_programmers_ are very good; it's the politics at the higher levels that
makes everything so complicated.

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