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Learning To Program Has No More To Do With Designing Interactive Software Than Learning To Touch Type Has To Do With Writing Poetry

They Were Saying Computers Deal With Numbers. This Was Absolutely Nonsense. Computers Deal With Arbitrary Information Of Any Kind.

So, The Point Was To Be Able To Have A Medium That Would Record All The Connections And All The Structures And All The Thoughts That Paper Could Not. Since The Computer Could Hold Any Structure In Any Form, This Was The Way To Go.

We Live In Media, As Fish Live In Water.

I Am A Design Chauvinist. I Believe That Good Design Is Magical And Not To Be Lightly Tinkered With. The Difference Between A Great Design And A Lousy One Is In The Meshing Of The Thousand Details That Either Fit Or Don't, And The Spirit Of The Passionate Intellect That Has Tied Them Together, Or Tried. That's Why Programming - Or Buying Software - On The Basis Of "lists Of Features" Is A Doomed And Misguided Effort. The Features Can Be Thrown Together, As In A Garbage Can, Or Carefully Laid Together And Interwoven In Elegant Unification, As In Apl, Or The Forth Language, Or The Game Of Chess.