On Mar 9, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Alexander Henry wrote:
> A VERY interesting article I found on /.!
>
> http://osnews.com/story.php?news_id=6282
I think if you read the article you will see that the argument is that,
at least in some respects, the CLI can be more newbie friendly than the
Windows GUI. Bash in it's default configuration together with the
various unix tools is a particularly crufty and newbie hostile
environment. The article reinforces this because the author extensively
customized the CLI for his newbies. It is perfectly reasonable to
advocate for the command line as a good UI for newbies at a high level
of abstraction. It doesn't follow that any particular CLI, no matter
how poorly implemented, is better than a well implemented GUI. And
make no mistake, the standard *nix interface is user and especially
newbie hostile. It's crazy to have two distinct versions of regular
expressions, both of them inconsistent with shell globing, to name an
obvious and egregious example.
I've always been sort of amazed that no one has taken it upon
themselves to fix the unix CLI. It's not like the problems aren't
known. The man pages are full of UI errors.
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