On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Yves Degoyon wrote:
( anyway, that boring conversation already happened, focusing on __TASTE__ rather than on __USABILITY__/__IMPROVEMENT__ )
I think you're underestimating taste...
i hope we'll never speak of contract workers here )) shit...
Hi. I am a contract worker. Oupse.
- programmers are attracted to software that already meet
certain criteria of usefulness and adequacy;
why keeping that distinction over and over between users and programmers ??? it's just apple/microsoft/corporate point of view !!
I don't know why others do it, there may be several reasons, but the reason I do it in this mail in particular is because it is VERY relevant... who writes free software? certainly not everyone, and actually, a very low percentage of computer users.
If I were to consider the users as one big undifferentiated mass, within the context of the analysis I am trying to make, it would be a lack of discernment on my part.
Another point that needs to be making is what "programmer" means in this context. What I mean by "programmer" is a person that is programming when s/he is doing so. Similarly, a "user" is a person that is using when s/he is doing so. Therefore, someone can be both "programmer" and "user" in the same day, or even at the same moment.
Yet another point that I need to make: Since PureData is known to blur the line between "programmer" and "just a user", by targeting the "power user" and "script language programmer" alike, I'd like to mention that things I write about "programmers" may apply partially to any kind of "programmerish" behaviour, to various degrees, and likewise for "users" and "userish" behaviour.
i was born a user...
I was born to be wild!
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju