ANN: Dao Language v.0.9.6-beta is release!
Paul McNett
p at ulmcnett.com
Mon Dec 5 15:13:55 EST 2005
Christopher Subich wrote:
> JohnBMudd at gmail.com wrote:
>
>>>From "The Design of Everyday Things", docs are a sign of poor design.
>>Even a single word, such as the word "Push" on the face of a door, is
>>an indication that the design can be improved. Please, rethink the
>>design instead of trying to compensate with more documentation.
>
>
> This quote, with a naive reading, would seem to imply that "needing
> documentation is evidence of bad design." I think we can all agree that
> this interpretation is ludicrous: the only programming language, for
> example, which does not need documentation is the natural language, and
> that contains so many ambiguities that humans often get instructions wrong.
Indeed, there is only one user interface that needs no documentation whatsoever.
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Paul McNett
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