Re: Hackers and Painters and Lawyers

["Peter J. Wasilko, Esq." <address@hidden>]

> 
> On Friday, May 16, 2003, at 02:44  PM, Peter J. Wasilko, Esq. wrote:
> >     I'd say the biggest bogeyman is "Notation for Obfuscation"!
> >
> >     Must every new lightweight language look like a cross between C 
> > and Etruscan?
> >
> >     Take pity on End Users and consider Plain English Programming. 
> > After all, if lawyers can learn to write in Plain English, surely CS 
> > people can rise to the challenge!
> 
> And mathematicians? What about them?
> 
> john "no thanks" clements


Hi John,

    They play in their own pool. :-)


Warmest Regards,

Peter



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Peter J. Wasilko, Esq.
     J.D., LL.M.               

Executive Director, The Institute for End User Computing, Inc.

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Its time to abandon brittle architectures with poorly factored
interfaces, gratuitous complexity, and kludged designs dominated
by sacrifices on the altar of backwards compatibility.

Such artifacts are vulnerable to cyber-attack, weigh down the
economy costing trillions of dollars in lost productivity, and
suffer from an impoverished conceptual model that lacks the
integration and elegance needed to empower end users to
get the most from advanced applications in the future.

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