Lisi Reisz writes: > Some of us are old enough for the command line to be more familiar. > DOS anyone? ;-) Actually I almost never used DOS, but used a Sys V /bin/sh through a terminal configured like a true teletype, a pain.
I was lucky enough to get exposed to ksh and bash quite soon, and that let me understand the power of using words instead of gestures even when you "talk" to a machine :). > I have always preferred the command line for installing and searching, > and am still not what I would describe as an advanced user. Shell let you tell the machine "do all this mechanical work by yourself and give me the results" while GUI sometime trap the user in a Metropolis-like situation (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q030WNZvXrA) where the man is a servomechanism of the machine. [The scene comes from some real life jobs in the pre-Control-theory age] -- ing. Gian Uberto Lauri Solution Developer Senior Direzione Ricerca e Innovazione gianuberto.la...@eng.it Sun Java Certified Programmer Engineering Ingegneria Informatica spa Corso Stati Uniti 23/C, 35127 Padova (PD) Tel. +39-049.8283.517 | main(){printf(&unix["\021%six\012\0"], Fax +39-049.8283.569 | (unix)["have"]+"fun"-0x60);} http://www.eng.it | David Korn, AT&T Bell Labs | ioccc best One Liner, 1987 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/21140.54869.541946.467...@mail.eng.it
