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** Reply to message from "Alaric B. Snell" <alaric@alaric-snell.com> 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.
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Anthony B. Coates, Information & Software Architect
mailto:abcoates@TheOffice.net
MDDL Editor (Market Data Definition Language)
http://www.mddl.org/
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