From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,243dc2fb696a49cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl) Date: 26 Sep 2004 00:22:24 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <11b4d.3849$d5.30042@newsb.telia.net> <1095860313.176522@yasure> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.219.97.214 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1096183344 2126 127.0.0.1 (26 Sep 2004 07:22:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:22:24 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4197 Date: 2004-09-26T00:22:24-07:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote in message news:... > >>Why are printed newspapers still popular even if a lot of > >>people have a permanent, uninterrupted Internet connection > >>and are able to rapidly move even between several > >>electronic newspapers? > > > > Because a newspaper is a set of unrelated articles, and we read the > > articles from beginning to end. And we don't have to edit the > > newspaper, just read it. Newspaper writers and editors universally do > > their work on a computer screen. > > I don't understand this explanation. > > My answer would be along these lines. On a big paper sheet there are > different content items, or different parts of some content. You have to > locate a part, focus on it, to read it. Same goes for the whole > (printed) newspaper. On a small screen only one part fits. The others > are away. So what is different is how the user locates parts. With a > printed paper you only have to turn your eyes or head to look at a > different part. And you can even move a sheet up/down/left/right so the > part under inspection stays more aligned with the eyes. You cannot do > that with a small screen. Maybe with an eyetracking system you can > simulate that, but I doubt it will work as well. That explains why it's easier to read linear text from a printed page. Programs aren't linear text -- they have a complex structure, and aren't read from beginning to end. That is why most programmers prefer to work with code via a screen editor. It's been a long time since I've seen a programmer work from listings.