[igouy]

Perhaps users want to use apps without needing to program apps?

Perhaps some want to play in a garden without needing to dig and plant and weed and…

[carapace]

> Multics Emacs proved to be a great success—programming new editing commands was so convenient that even the secretaries in his office started learning how to use it. They used a manual someone had written which showed how to extend Emacs, but didn't say it was a programming. So the secretaries, who believed they couldn't do programming, weren't scared off. They read the manual, discovered they could do useful things and they learned to program.

~ https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.html

[t0suj4]

I think you shouldn't need to program if you don't want to understand the problem domain.

[igouy]

Do you think someone should need to program if they want to understand the problem domain?

[macintux]

Speaking for myself, I’ve never found a better way to understand something new.

[igouy]

Perhaps a way to understand abstract categories.