David Bendit <
DarkElf109@ibendit.com>:
> On Jul 31, 2007, at 5:42 AM, George Toft wrote:
>>> 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.
To be fair, modern mice allow the caveman to make 5 or more
different types of grunts. And think about trying to use Gimp
without a pointing device of some sort. It wouldn't work that
well. Language is a Swiss Army Chainsaw, sure, but there are
times when a simple hammer gets the job done faster.
>> "The main purpose of a GUI is to support multiple xterms."
> Pfft. Who needs xterms when you have screen properly configured?
Multiple overlapping windows can be nice when you have to monitor
stuff while working on other stuff. And resizing a VC is in
general more difficult than resizing an xterm. And I've heard
too many reports of video cards where if you try to use DVI,
you don't see a thing until X starts up (no POST or BIOS Setup
without VGA, yikes.)
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