On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 7:22:08 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > Rustom Mody : > > > whereas in fact every significant GUI embeds text (possibly recursively) > > > > eg TI inside GUI -- think of text inside gimp > > GUI inside TI -- think of Word embedding other doc types including pictures > > Which can be recursive -- WOrd embeds a picture embeds text > > Sigh, still nobody has mentioned an exemplary GUI application. > > An anecdote: Some weeks back my son and I were struggling to get the > right kind of graph out of Excel. After four hours of Google, Youtube, > trial and error, we gave up, took out a pad of millimeter paper and some > colored pencils. The whole job took my son an hour and the end result > looked great. He snapped a picture and sent it to the teacher by email.
Point being?? If I tried to speak Finnish I'd look a fool. Makes me a fool? Best I can see you dont know excel [Nor do I] Lets guess that you've spent 10 hours struggling with excel Now compare with how much with programming and 'classical' CS Would a couple of thousand hours be an overestimate? Is the inherent difficulty of excel to programming consistent with that ratio? > > A 2nd anecdote. I occasionally need to make technical presentations to > an audience. Do I use PowerPoint or Impress? No, I use emacs, M-x > picture-mode and raw HTML (without styles). I get to concentrate on > producing effective communication, and nobody has complained about the > lack of imagery or funny animation. Yeah so do I emacs → org mode → export html Works but not ideal -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
