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Software for "Variable" and directories for HP Prime?
05-16-2018, 09:43 AM (This post was last modified: 05-16-2018 09:45 AM by Stevetuc.)
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RE: Software for "Variable" and directories for HP Prime?
(05-16-2018 05:04 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  Hello,

Actually, folders/tree architectures are "natural" for us ONLY because they have been used in computers for so long...

But they are a bad analogy to real life where we mostly thing in graphs with no "root" or top level and multiple ways to access a particual set of data.

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Cyrille

I agree they have been used in computers for so long, but only because researchers like the Xerox Parc team tried to find a metaphor for real life - the folders that every office has used to organise paper long before computers (actually a "computer" was originally a person), and without folders you just have big pile of paper that you need to sort through..folders are a natural solution to that.
The original iphone had no folders, that had to change for the same reason.

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