Rutebook and a lot more
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Aug 29 18:04:54 UTC 2008
Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 01:44 -0500, Young wrote:
>> Did you notice how "Using the Command Line" is under "Advanced Topics",
>
> Usually, people consider it an advanced topic. I agree that we can
> discuss whether the CLI paradigm (i.e., talking to the computer in its
> own language) is really that much harder in the long term than the WIMP
> interface (i.e., being reduced to pointing and grunting), but that does
> not change the fact that the average user today will consider it
> advanced.
>
> (Aplogies to Neal Stephenson for stealing his analogies)
Regardless of whether it was stolen (I've read that piece), I think it's
really "pointing and swearing" :-)
--
derek
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