12 Oct
2011
12 Oct
'11
8:57 p.m.
On 12/10/11 5:01 PM, Tony Duell wrote:
But I haven't said anywhere that the web is 'better' than anything else
in particular. Just that it's decently useful, and maybe not quite as
horrible as Dave makes out.
Here you are, Dave - This just in, via the World Wide Web:
http://www.quora.com/How-has-the-world-changed-since-Quora-users-were-born/…
--T
Now,
before people like Toby latch onto that and scream at me for
"hating GUIs" or "hating anything modern" or whatever people like to
push my buttons about, I LOVE GUIs, and I LOVE modern things. It's just
that I love the concept of "using the right tool for the job" even more.
If that tool happens to have been introduced to the world at an
earlier time than some other tool, then so be it, it's still the right
tool for the job. Period.
As an aside, there are 2 fundamental misconceptions that I see all the
time :
The fact that 'A' is better than 'B' for one application implies it must
be better for _all_ applications.
That fact that 'A' is bewer than 'B' means it must be better for all
applications.
We can all think of plenty of examples of that...
-tony