Ubuntu is under attack

[Peter Garrett]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:12:56 -0500
Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:

> yet DOS and all such CLUIs
> required people to the be the tools of the computer, and not the other
> way around where the computer itself was the tool.

I think this is really backwards. Computers are not appliances, whether
you like that fact or not.

When I use the CLI , I am not at *all*  "the tool of the computer". In
fact it's the exact opposite. I am giving the OS instructions, telling the
computer what I want it to do.

Do you think bash scripting is being "a tool of the computer" ?

You might find the essay from which my current .sig is quoted interesting:

http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

I have nothing against GUIs, and use them all the time - but let's be
clear-thinking about this. How the CLI makes *anyone* a "tool of the
computer" boggles the mind.

Peter


-- Unix is hard to learn. The process of learning
it is one of multiple small epiphanies. -- Neal Stephenson