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** Reply to message from "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@a...> on Thu, 14 Nov 2002 16:07:56 +0000 > On Thursday 14 November 2002 16:00, Anthony B. Coates wrote: > > Yeah, yeah. Are you still running DOS then? Do you always boot Linux up > > to a command prompt and eschew the use of X, Gnome, or KDE? Or is there a > > light touch of hypocracy here?? :-) The world has voted with its feet > > (with its mice?) for GUIs. > > That's not the point. Sean's comment was that technology should not *need* a > GUI, not that he wants to always use a CLI for everything. It's more a > statement that he wants to be *able* to do whatever he likes with a CLI, > should the need arise. Sean's a good bloke, and I certainly was kidding around a bit. Let me add, though, that if technology should not *need* a GUI, then surely it should not *need* a CLI either. The availability of a CLI does not guarantee that a technology is sufficiently simple, nor even that it is sufficiently usable by the blind. Should a good technology not need anything? I would be more inclined to suggest that a good technology should have at least one good interface (hopefully usable by people with special requirements as well). The fact of it being a GUI or CLI is completely moot. Cheers, Tony. ==== Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect mailto:abcoates@T... MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language) http://www.mddl.org/
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