Subj : Re: Today in History - 1
To   : Dave Drum
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Sun Aug 13 2023 01:28 pm

-=> Dave Drum wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 DD> We had a bit of discussion on Cobol and Fortran at my computer guys
 DD> (and girls) get-together last night. The only one of us still working
 DD> with 'puters has his current position because he can maintain the code
 DD> in a State of Illinois mainframe used to run most of his agency.  Bv)=

Job security is a good thing.

 DD> Me, I sell car parts at AutoZone amd cuss the kiddies at the home
 DD> office who constantly futz with the OS (in Linux) the we use on the
 DD> terminals at the counter. I really hate it when I try to access
 DD> something that used to was easy to get to and has been buried under
 DD> layers of menus and steps. Or hidden entirely and must be accessed by
 DD> opening another program - like the catalogs for lawnmowers/garden
 DD> tractors aor ATVs and motorcycles/scooters or the Heavy Truck stuff.

Unfortunately, a lot of programmers have very odd ideas about UI/UX (user
eXperience) stuff.   I've seen the UI at AZ before.  IMNSHO, it's overly
complicated.

-- Sean

.... Amiga made it possible.  Commodore made it dead.
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