naive

Untutored in the perversities of some particular program or

system; one who still tries to do things in an intuitive way,

rather than the right way (in really good designs these

coincide, but most designs aren't "really good" in the

appropriate sense). This trait is completely unrelated to

general maturity or competence or even competence at any other

specific program. It is a sad commentary on the primitive

state of computing that the natural opposite of this term is

often claimed to be "experienced user" but is really more like

"cynical user".

(1994-11-29)