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But in the 1970s the typical secretary had a simple tool (Emacs) for helping themselves, the same tool most programmers have intimidated each other from using even as an influence. In the 1980s typical non-technical users were building multimedia applications using Hypercard. Emacs and Hypercard together take a miniscule fraction of the installation space and still a small fraction of the intellectual power required for computing with XML, DOMs, XAML, and WS-xxx. Are the secretaries going to be doing this in Info Path?
That's a good question. There's little doubt that the scions of the industry have been making life more, rather than less, complex for us all. Smalltalk, Lisp, and Emacs are loads simpler than what Sun, MS, and IBM have been tossing at us - one has to wonder about that....
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