On Wed, 2013-10-30 at 11:12 -0700, Walter Bright wrote: […] > Much effort in cockpit design goes into trying to figure out what the pilot > would do "intuitively" and ensuring that that is the right thing to do.
I've no experience with cockpit design, but I am aware of all the HCI work that went into air traffic control in the 1980s and 1990s, especially realizing the safety protocols which are socio-political systems as much as computer realized things. This sort of safety work is as much about the context and the human actors as much as the computer and software. > Of course, we try to do that with programming language design, too, with > varying > degrees of success. […] Has any programming language ever had psychology of programming folk involved from the outset rather than after the fact as a "patch up" activity? -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder