Re: Searching the headers in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
Re: Searching the headers in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
- Subject: Re: Searching the headers in Xcode (Re: [ANN] Xcode + Leopard at WWDC this year)
- From: David Masover <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:51:07 -0500
Laurence Harris wrote:
Keep in mind you're programming here. Some technical ability (such as
the use of multiple windows in an application) is required.
IMO, this is exactly the kind of thinking that is responsible for Xcode
(and other developer tools I've seen) often having non-intuitive,
awkward -- and dare I say -- geeky interfaces. It's the notion that
programmers don't need, appreciate, or even want software that's easy to
use.
Actually, I think it indicates more that programmers almost by
definition have to learn more than the rest of us. Consider the amount
of time it takes to learn enough about a program to help improve it,
versus the amount of time it takes to learn to use it.
If we weren't good at learning new systems, we'd all be doing another job.
Thus, the focus is less on the amount of time initially required to
learn an interface, and more on how productive you are once you know
how. This is why we have Vim and Emacs, and for that matter, Xcode.
Apple generally does a good job of achieving both, of course, but given
a limited amount of resources, it's generally better to make an
"end-user" app, like a Word processor, easy to learn. It's generally
better to make programming tools more efficient to use and more
powerful, because programmers will learn to use them anyway.
This might be a good time to take it off-list. Oops...
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