Caveman UI [WAS: Re: Explaining T-Shirts]

[Dennis Kibbe]

On Monday 30 July 2007 09:38:05 am Bill Lindley wrote:
> Trying to explain command-line to a GUI-only person, is like trying to
> explain the advantages of learning a foreign language to someon who
> insists only on pointing to phrases in a tourist guidebook.
>
> \\/

Eben Moglen (http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/ for those that don't know of 
him) recalls when as a programmer at IBM he was asked to evaluate the just 
released Apple Lisa, one of the first computers with a graphic interface.

Eben realized that the GUI was the death of language. The caveman interface he 
called it since it reduced the user to pointing and grunting.

Dennisk