Friday 30 April 2010

computing for the person in the street

Or in our case, the person in the teaching office!

Our "tenets for software that can be maintained by non-specialists" might have some things in common with Jef Raskin's "Design Considerations for an Anthropophilic Computer" (28-29 May 1979). Simple hardware is not that unlike simple software: dispensing with multiple modes, interfaces with other systems, no libraries you can't find or understand...

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