On Wednesday, 30 October 2013 at 18:35:44 UTC, Russel Winder
wrote:
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?
Ruby, they say. Even if it's only one programmer they based it
on. :-)
