<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sun, 2007-05-08 at 20:02 -0400, Bruce Marshall wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> > Pick any command that takes arguments. Produce a front end so that a > user doesn't have to remember what the choices for arguments are, can > enter values for the ones he wants, and pass them along to the command. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> > A little C, a little perl... </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> </PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Ok, your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to write a gui front-end for the 'find' command. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <PRE> </PRE> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Once you have done that, you will know all the in's and out's of the Find command and you will not need a gui...... </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> You are, of course, wilfully missing the entire point of a GUI. Putting a GUI in place isn't to make life easier for the person writing the GUI (usually), it's for making life easier for everybody else who comes afterwards. The whole point of this whole "Human Computer Interaction" thing is to make it so people don't have to be experts in software to use computers for their daily tasks. <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Michael T. Richter <<A HREF="mailto:ttmrichter@gmail.com">ttmrichter@gmail.com</A>> (GoogleTalk: ttmrichter@gmail.com) Experts in advanced countries underestimate by a factor of two to four the ability of people in underdeveloped countries to do anything technical. (Charles P Issawi) </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>