Re: Great SWT Program

nebulous99@xxxxxxxxx <nebulous99@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 13, 8:38 am, Andreas Leitgeb <a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Babies do know instantly how to say "waaaaaaah" and some time later to
point to things and say something like "ga!". So obviously, this is a
very novice-friendly system of communication, just like moving the mouse
and clicking.
Well, why do they spend the next couple of years learning a complicated
language? Maybe because using a complicated language might be more
productive for these experts (that is: for >=4 year olds, who *can*
talk) ?

Your analogy falls flat on its face.
Not quite. The analogy is about "users communicating with the computer",
versus "baby communicating with their environment".
It was not about using the keyboard to type texts for other people, but
using the keyboard to control the computer.

... and a hypothetical computer system with a mouse and a graphics
display but no keyboard.
It's not all that hypothetical: more like these public phone-boxes with
internet. They don't have a keyboard, but on demand show a
software-keyboard for typing texts, just like as if one offers to a baby
an apple and a banana and let it pick by pointing to (and "ga" saying)
what it wants.

.

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