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- From: ioi@pixmap.seas.upenn.edu (Ioi Kim Lam)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 20:07:37 GMT
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- > Try: power. With a command line, you can do exactly what you want to
- > do (assuming the requisite knowledge) without being limited and slowed
- > by predefined options and nice windows.
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- Let's look at the future, not the past. Command line was and still is a
- nice interface element. However, try to move a window using command line.
- Tell the MS Word user to use key-strokes to do the cut-and-paste.
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- Command line has its advantage, and so does GUI and any other kind of user
- interface. These different types of user interfaces are complementary to
- each other, and we still need a hell lot of development in order to
- render the power of the computer to all the users. Don't think that by
- insisting on using the command line ONLY you are defending the future of Unix.
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- " Before the computer scientist was executed, he still
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