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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