Screen vs Page vs Card

[Judy Perry]

Which you, presumably, as a developer of *customized* solutions can well
afford to do.  But you can't make a general tool like Rev all things to
all people or a programming language version of th Tower of Babel.  It
cannot both incorporate all domains AND be teachable/learnable.

You can see this problem in the Developer community -- people are
initially taught verbose Lingo, but then we they need to do something more
advanced, syntax is presented in c.dot.syntax-like.Lingo.  It hinders
learnability.

Are you really arguing that many more consumer-level people are more
familiar with card qua board/filter than with card qua card?

Judy

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> This makes my point.
>
> To those on the inside, the card metaphor is obvious.  To those on the
> outside it is just computer jargon until they get to "oh, I get it".
> Then they are on the inside and can talk about how obvious it is.
>
> Besides the potential jargon, there are lots of meanings to the noun
> card, and the outsider can only guess which ones apply if not some
> sense not known.
>
> Is a card some board that is plugged in?  "Everybody knows computers
> have boards."
> Is a card something the filters out my mistakes?
> Is a card something that tells everybody I'm here.
> Is Hypercard very funny?
>
> There is no way, I'm going to force the card metaphor on my customers.
> I learn the terms of their domain.