Chambers wrote:
> While sleeping on the bus this morning, I had what I considered a rather 
> interesting thought.
> 
> Coding frameworks all have the objective of making it easy for 
> programmers to do work quickly.  My thought was, that these frameworks 
> are split into two groups, due to their usability targets.
> 
> The best frameworks (imo) are those that make it easy for professionals 
> or experts to work quickly.
> 
> The worst ones are those that try to make it easy for novices or beginners.
> 
> Each set of frameworks is difficult for the opposite set of programmers 
> to use, but the first holds potential for novices to learn, while the 
> second will never be useful for experts.  Hence the greater value of the 
> first set.

Arguably this is why most M$ products aren't useful to experts. Almost 
every M$ product I've seen to date is designed around the assumption 
that the person using it is too stupid to operate a complex machine and 
must therefore be prevented from doing certain things.

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