Re:Never-Ending Learning of User Interfaces
by bbarnett on Saturday August 26, 2023 @05:50PM
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Yep.
Some industries, at this point in time, should be using the same compute and toolkit in 100+ years.
My mechanic is using software he bought in the 90s, in an emulator, becuae why change? What's the point?
He enters customer names, he books appointments, he inputs inventory, he bills. Nothing has changed in 30 years, norhing will change in another 30.
It's barely a gui by today's standard, and works wonderfully.
Why transition to another POS system? Why worry about conversion of current data?
And the stuff he has is rock solid. All the new stuff he tried has bugs, and the bug fixed versions have different bugs.
You wanna be a hard core dev? Develop stuff that will be written to floppies and pressed to CDs, with no internet for updates.
When you go through an office area, where people are using "enterprise" software all day, make a mental note of the little pieces of paper taped to their monitors and cube walls, with written-out instructions for getting through everyday tasks. One thing is that they don't want to be forced to re-make those instructions, which may have been discovered at great cost.