alt Hacker News> WIMP and GUI paradigms are the exact the opposite: intentional dis-empowering
Are you kidding? WIMP and GUI democratized computing!
> WIMP and GUI paradigms are the exact the opposite: intentional dis-empowering
Are you kidding? WIMP and GUI democratized computing!
What "democratized computing" was cheaper computing and VisiCalc, not WIMP and GUI?
But again, VisiCalc is intentionally limited, it's not a all-powerful environment, on purpose. It's all about intentional limitations, making computation easier to reason about.