software design, the principle of least astonishment (POLA), also known as principle of least surprise, proposes that a component of a system should behave...

the means to remedy them. The principle of least astonishment (POLA) is a general principle in the design of all kinds of interfaces. It is based on the...

The Law of Demeter (LoD) or principle of least knowledge is a design guideline for developing software, particularly object-oriented programs. In its general...

of the Ruby on Rails web framework, but is related to earlier ideas like the concept of "sensible defaults" and the principle of least astonishment in...

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(river), in Russia Principle of least astonishment, in human–computer interaction Principle of least authority, in computer security Port of London Authority...

thing at point", "point" being the Emacs term for the cursor. Principle of least astonishment Affordance Warren Teitelman, "PILOT: A Step towards Man-Computer...

builder Human interface device Linux on the desktop Principle of least astonishment Principles of grouping Usability User interface Web accessibility...

commands often followed by various parameters and options. Principle of least astonishment Convention over configuration "How to configure file associations...

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be applied to the other products. (This is related to the principle of least astonishment.) For some examples, NASA quotes the following progress ratios...

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in part, by keeping the language small and following the principle of least astonishment. A readable syntax is enabled by being case-insensitive, free-form...

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where PL/I habits may lead to surprises. One of the REXX design goals was the principle of least astonishment. Rexx was designed and first implemented, in...

confusion. He has said that he had not applied the principle of least astonishment (POLA) to the design of Ruby; in a May 2005 discussion on the newsgroup...

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considerable astonishment at the 1952 meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Rome. For most of the second half of the 20th century, the value of the...

to Raskolnikov's astonishment, that Porfiry no longer suspects him of the murders. As Raskolnikov is about to set off in search of Svidrigailov, Porfiry...

achievement received worldwide praise (as well as astonishment about the actual positions of the legs of running horses that were much less graceful than...

principle of least action on light particles. However in 1815, Augustin-Jean Fresnel presented a new a wave theory for diffraction to a commission of...

potential. In an interview, actor/filmmaker Tyler Perry expressed his astonishment at the technology's ability to generate realistic video from text descriptions...

became Commander-in-Chief of the Wehrmacht, Keitel (to the astonishment of the General Staff, including himself) became chief of staff. Soon after his promotion...

"[b]ut it was long, I suspect, before he recovered from his astonishment over the strange ways of the department he now headed." Political commentator Walter...

of wonder in the practice of philosophy. On this view, "philosophy begins in wonder" and "[i]t was their wonder, astonishment, that first led men to philosophize...

of your highness:” and then before the whole court, who listened to them with eager curiosity and astonishment, they gave a circumstantial account of...

any moment enter upon a different way of life... But a posteriori through experience, he finds to his astonishment that he is not free, but liable to necessity;...

lack of response from those he spoke to. "To my astonishment, I found very few who listened with any interest. Occasionally, one would see the force of the...

supplying bridge laws, and heeding the deductivenomological model—to, at least in principle, the fundamental science, that is, fundamental physics. And Rudolf...