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

[David Bendit]

Pfft. Who needs xterms when you have screen properly configured?

-David

On Jul 31, 2007, at 5:42 AM, George Toft wrote:

> "The main purpose of a GUI is to support multiple xterms."
>
> Some people just don't get that statement :)
>
> George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
> 623-203-1760
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> Dennis Kibbe wrote:
>> 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
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