We still _need_ each other... (Was Oregon again...)

[Ronnie Morgan]

** Reply to note from silvest at umslvma.umsl.edu 12/01/95 12:21pm -0800

I think I'm catching the tail end of this thread, but I have to ask, what is  
a computer "scientist"?  I have heard of computer programers, computer  
specialists, computer technician, etc..., but never computer scientist...

As for making things easy to use, I think most software being developed is  
fairly easy to use.  The biggest problem I have found is, computer  
programmers are not thinking about library/network use, they are thinking  
about John Doe using thier software on John Doe's computer.  And not John Doe  
using thier software on the libraries computer, where the library will want  
to restrict access to the guts of the computer to keep John Hacker from  
screwing things up.

The computer programmer needs to interact with the end-user as well as the  
system administrators of library/network systems.


Ronnie Morgan
Team OS/2
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