Christopher Subich wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>From "The Design of Everyday Things", docs are a sign of poor design. >>Even a single word, such as the word "Push" on the face of a door, is >>an indication that the design can be improved. Please, rethink the >>design instead of trying to compensate with more documentation. > > > This quote, with a naive reading, would seem to imply that "needing > documentation is evidence of bad design." I think we can all agree that > this interpretation is ludicrous: the only programming language, for > example, which does not need documentation is the natural language, and > that contains so many ambiguities that humans often get instructions wrong.
Indeed, there is only one user interface that needs no documentation whatsoever. -- Paul McNett http://paulmcnett.com http://dabodev.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
