Re: Oberon/Acme/etc. mouse heavy interfaces [Was: Re: Life, universe, and ION3]

> This is the Acme/P9 interface [...] and it's just
> utter and total crap on a typical horizontal-controls-
> and-vertical-screen computer,

"utter and total crap," hmm. Bah, I will let it to you.

A VERY knowledgeable guy (you certainly knows who he is) has
(among other things) designed a VERY nice programming language:
Eiffel. Unfortunately, he would--and does, indeed--call "utter
and total crap" everything is not Eiffel.

What to say? "Teddy" [Adorno] tells that every and each
masterpiece is the *mortal* enemy of the other one. Who knows.
Alternatively, an university assistant, a fellow among the very
few really good programmers [a mathematician by education, of
course] I have met, has remarked once at a cafeteria with the
*scherzoso ma non troppo* tone which distinguishes cafeterias'
conversations: --Uuuh, Bertrand is of the kind of geniuses which
should get a ... mouse :) plugged somewhere: click-click, "help,
I have this specific problem/don't understand that, please
explain"; and when he finishes, and begins speaking of other
things: "another time, thank you Bertrand," click-click--.

> I've hit a command query key, typed a couple of letters of     
> the command and hit <tab> faster than moving the hand to the   
> mouse!                                                         

:)

Maybe, but do you know The Hare and the Hedgehog tale by the
Brothers Grimm? (Beware.)

Besides: no one is saying that you couldn't longer type tabs, why
make it an aut aut?

> Not to even speak of pixel-hunting text with the pantograph that
> the mouse is.

:)

Look in a dictionary: agoraphobia. What do you have against
mice?

Cheers,

 
/Roy
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