[Cuis-dev] new video. Installing Cuis-Smalltalk in Linux

[Phil B]

Juan,

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 8:08 AM Juan Vuletich via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> Hi Nicola,
>
> To be fair, I have trouble understanding how come people prefer watching a
> video over reading a short, well written document (from which you can even
> select and copy the relevant commands).
>

OK, so someone needs to make a video explaining this... just kidding!

I think there are a few reasons:

1) There's a significant fraction of people today who didn't grow up
reading technical materials.  Many of us came up reading manuals and books
because there was no other option at the time.  So where we might default
to text options (a web/mailing list search, man pages, books etc), others
may default to a video search.  So even if you make a short, well written
post there's a significant fraction (probably soon to be a majority, if not
already) of users this will be invisible to.  And it's getting even worse:
there's now a significant fraction of people today who only do a particular
type of search on a particular platform (i.e. video on YouTube, Facebook
etc.)

2) The 'well written' part:  A lot of people with otherwise good
information are lousy technical writers.  Either they'll leave out key bits
of information or they won't convey the information clearly.  When one
records a screencast it often takes effort to leave information out since
the end result often won't work if they do.

3) The catch-all: laziness.  Reading takes more effort than watching a
video.  The obvious trade-off is that you can often read a given amount of
information much more quickly than someone can show/say it in a video
unless it's inherently video/audio information.

Keep in mind that there are more than a few people who came up before us
that didn't understand our need for our fancy programming languages.  After
all, self-modifying machine code can do everything they can...


> But so it is.
>
> Thanks for doing this. I'm sure it will help many.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Juan Vuletich <http://www.cuis-smalltalk.org>
>
>
>
Phil
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