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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,243dc2fb696a49cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: Marius Amado Alves Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 20:00:58 +0100 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <11b4d.3849$d5.30042@newsb.telia.net> <1095860313.176522@yasure> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1095966096 57244 212.85.156.195 (23 Sep 2004 19:01:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 19:01:36 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Sep 2004 19:01:22.0361 (UTC) FILETIME=[B77E8290:01C4A19F] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newshosting.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!oleane.net!oleane!feed.ac-versailles.fr!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4034 Date: 2004-09-23T20:00:58+01:00 >>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.