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From: FODEMESI Gergely <fgergo@eik...>
Subject: Put (was: acme: some thoughts about design)
Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 01:10:01 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 29 May 2004 9nut@9ne... wrote:

> > Don't use files ;-) It is a computer task to save my input but
> > I dont understand why I must tell the computer where to store.

Even in 1997 I met people who thought, that a user should not be obliged
to know when, where and what to save or that the concept of saving should
exist at all. (A real visionary might have thought about this probably
decades ago.)

> Obviously a failure of vision on Rob's part!

Put might have come from an idea like above (ie. "save" is not the best
way to express the real need), or it was just shorter than "Save".

 gergo