Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by lenkite on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:55AM (#23165225)

SAP's ugly green, old style-UI screens are wonderfully optimised for data-entry. You can be ultra-fast. It's like VIM. It's like driving at 300 mph.

Its all the new fangled dumbed-down, web-ui's that is sheer crap and leaves your head scratching.

Well..the old UI's were coded by old-school, C programmers who started their career in the 70s and 80s. They even wrote a multi-process Erlang style kernel to back the application programming. Performance came naturally from their gut.

Nowadays, we get Electron and congratulate ourselves.

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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by huffmsa on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @06:21AM (#23165386)

Saw a big write-up somewhere about this. It's easy to learn the muscle memories for various patterns on a text only UI, and you can become extremely fast.

But almost no one is fast with a mouse based GUI

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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by willhslade on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:52AM (#23166362)

Excel.

Indeed.

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Re:Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think by arethuza on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @08:33AM (#23166197)

I did once get an explanation of how SAP screens work when a former employer was considering buying SAP ERP - it reminded me at the time of how IBM mainframe terminals work.

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