In a message dated 7/3/2009 9:45:32 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com writes:
Happily, it's not necessary that the *average* user be able to contribute to programming. >>
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Let me just point out that I never stated the above in the first place. The average user hasn't even figured out how to use the <ref> system, and probably less than ten percent understand {templates} at all even to include them, let alone to edit them.
So I would never advocate a system where the average person can do it. Rather I would advocate a system which is as easy to use as we can make it. Not as hard as we can imagine it.
Will
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On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:15 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
Rather I would advocate a system which is as easy to use as we can make it. Not as hard as we can imagine it.
I would recommend that the criterion used be "as easy as possible for the community to maintain". Languages that are harder for beginners are in many cases easier to use in the long run. Compare VB or PHP to . . . any language people actually like. :)