Howard:
On Aug 4, 2005, at 11:04 AM, Howard Brazee wrote:
On 4-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote:
My impression is that a "dumbed down interface" is the one
the other guy uses.
My concept of a "dumbed down interface" is really "an interface which
can be used by ignorant, untrained, underpaid, unskilled employees".
One
system here had a design criterion of allowing high school kids to be
able to use it after less than one day of training. Such employees are
easier to replace.
Certainly the ISPF editor doesn't require more than a day of training
for the
way most programmers use it.
I agree. I have taught such classes to NON programmer types and they
picked right up on it without have to explain myself 25 times.
These were medical types (hospital) nurses and the like so they were
reasonably intelligent.
Ed
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