On 01-Jun-2000, Ketil Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jan Skibinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > For tar_x, tar_xv, tar_v kind of things people
> > invented objects, recognizing that "tar -x"
> > approach is not a user friendly technology.
>
> Oh? You realize there are Unix weenies on this list, don't you?
> Cryptic commands with equally cryptic options is very user friendly
> for an interactive command line.
The emphasis there should be on _interactive_.
An interactive command line tool and a programming language intended
for writing non-trivial applications have very different requirements.
For the former, brevity may well be more important than readability,
but for the latter it is definitely the other way around.
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