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From: franka@mmintl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Request for human interface design anecdotes (and a cure?)
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Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 15:44:02 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  1 15:44:02 1987
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Reply-To: franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams)
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[I have directed follow-ups to comp.cog-eng only.]

In article <1987Nov27.011955.10801@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>While I'm posting, I'll add the bit I left out the first time.  I have
>made it a habit *not* to hit Return instantly upon typing a line that
>has both "rm" and "*" in it.  I pause and reread it.  It's an easy habit
>to establish, and it's all the protection I think I need against "rm * .o".

I agree.  Without having particularly thought about it, I do the same thing.
I suspect that most experienced programmers do, too.

This, of course, makes it no less a human interface problem.  The only
people who can fix the problem are the people who don't need to.
-- 

Frank Adams                           ihnp4!philabs!pwa-b!mmintl!franka
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