On 3/27/14 11:10 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Mark H Harris <harrismh...@gmail.com> wrote:My comments here are not in the least hasty, nor are they generalizations. They are based on long years of experience with "normal" users, {snip}
Who is a "normal user"?
For the purposes of this list, a "normal" user is a reasonably intelligent college educated non "computer professional" non "computer scientist" non "expert" who for the moment has an interest in leveraging computer science and|or programming to solve everyday or other scientific problems (without) having to first become a computer professional, computer scientist, or expert.
Yes, there are many many of them. There are hundreds of millions of them in the world today. There are only a handful of "experts" world-wide.
This "normal" set excludes power users, expert users, special purpose users and computer scientists. The "normal" users are those folks who want to get real answers to real problems *without* having to spend eons of time learning how to use the system. Enter python, SimplyPy, short tutorial (and on-line python docs) and whalla.
Now for Immanuel Kant (perception is reality); what do "normal" users expect? Its the ten-million €uro question.
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