[REBOL] Re: OSx news and external world reaction ...
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 5-Feb-2003 6:57
Hi, Carl,
Robin Williams (the female typographer, not the male comic) expressed
it very succinctly in her writings:
Don't be a wimp!
which is shorthand for her design rule that if you're going to design
two things to be different, then make sure that they are so different
that it will be obvious that you intended to do so.
Of course, being a programmer by trade and a theorist by disposition,
my shorthand is the MetaConsistencyRule
consistent presentation = consistent behavior
The middle connector denotes logical equivalence, so this can be read
as an implication in either direction, and negation distributes. ;-)
Seriously, what we're talking about IMHO is analogous to visual
contrast in the image-processing arena. Blurred, misty, soft-focus
meanings are fun (and essential) in art (painting, photography,
poetry, etc.) but are deadly in those areas where unambiguous clarity
is necessary (as in programming, mathematics, treaties, contracts,
etc.) Therefore, we need to "turn up the contrast filter" and make
sure that the differences are highly visible.
-jn-
Carl Read wrote:
