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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