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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