On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 10:56 AM, mathog <mathog@...1176...> wrote:
By the strict logic you are espousing the only way to "save" a binary memory structure would be via a binary dump to a file.
What's that binary data representing though? SVG
I get the impression some of you have not spent a lot of time actually dealing one one one, face to face, with "typical" end users, by which I mean, people who have zero interest in touching the code of the programs they are using.
Doing helpdesk type work and providing IT consulting for many types of businesses certainly has given me no exposure to typical users. You know what I learned at a law firm? Really intelligent people who are typical computer users sometimes don't even know that you can grab a title bar to move a window. Seriously, who has technical knowledge in any given field that doesn't end up helping/teaching their family and friends who don't possess the same knowledge?
The people I deal with are very high end (look where I am) and but not once in the ~30 years I have been here has an end user complained to me that the "Save as..." in a program was unsafe because it let them choose a nonconservative file format!
Interestingly enough, you just disqualified yourself from working with "typical end users"... you deal with "high end" people, they're by definition not typical. Therefore your arguments about what typical people want or need have to be taken with a grain of salt.
Cheers, Josh