[Python-3000] Fwd: proposal: disambiguating type

[Guido van Rossum]

On 5/23/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Anyway, it appears that the quote is commonly attributed to Bruce
> Edigar, and it should properly be  "The only intuitive interface is
> the nipple. After that, it's all learned." it is true that Jef Raskin
> has often been chiding people for calling something "intuitive" when
> they mean "familiar".

Sigh. It's Bruce Ediger. What's more, Bruce denies coming up with it,
and he also says it isn't true, according to his wife's experience.

http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2002/08/nipple.html (the quest for whose it is)

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.editors/msg/882fd4ef853ee770
(Bruce deniying it's his)

There is no intuitive interface, not even the nipple.  It's all learned.
        - Bruce Ediger, 2001

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