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On 2003-11-21, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
> In all seriousness, I would like to see "Designed by user interface
> specialists, after extensive study of existing systems and observation
> and interviews of programmers as they do their daily work."

And who is more suited than a programmer? The major problem for much of
software nowadays is that is developed by people not knowing or
understanding the intended usage of the program.


-- 
"Saving keystrokes is the job of the text editor, not the programming
 language."