I think we have to distinguish two things. One thing is GUI only with mouse. Another one is GUI with lots of keyboard shortcuts and bindings. For instance. I use a lot of Excel which clearly is a GUI app but I seldom use the mouse it is much productive for me to use shortcuts. An analogy can be made between Python an Pharo. Python is great, but one of the things that really annoys me is that all the methods, clases are there in a way which is difficult to grasp them. On the other hand, the System Browser is a wonderful thing for an OO language. GUI Zealot yes, mouse Zealot definitely not. Cheers Nacho
*Lic. Ignacio Sniechowski, MBA* *Prosavic SRL* *Tel: (011) 4542-6714* On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 4:35 PM, kilon.alios [via Smalltalk] < ml-node+s1294792n4820989...@n4.nabble.com> wrote: > Its funny you mention natural selection an extremely stupid and slow > process. Fortunately for us software evolves with artificial selection > which way faster and way more intelligent. But still it comes with a great > deal of flaws when you take a look at what exactly is popular in the coding > world nowdays . Or even outside the coding world. But yes we can sit here > and debate this for million of years. > > I am not a GUI zealot though, I have my own opinion that I never try to > enforce on others. I am perfectly ok with people that prefer a text based > approach. The only thing I am saying that GUIs have one undisputed > advantage, they are not text based only ;) > > For me it comes down to making sensible convenient and practical useful > UIs. How you do it , graphical or text based is secondary concern. > > I am also aware of the fact that GUIs tend to be more difficult to create, > which provides a very good explanation why command lines are still quite > popular. > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Nicolas Anquetil <[hidden email] > <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4820989&i=0>> wrote: > >> >> This remind me of a discussion a very long time ago on a newsgroup >> >> - a young zealot of GUI (windows, buttons, mouses) was asking himself and >> the community how people could deny that this was the best interface on >> earth or how anybody could prefer text based interface >> >> - a seasonned sys. admin then started to explain all the clicks he had to >> perform to create one new user account. Result: for one new user some >> minutes of work >> He then added that he had to create HUMDREDS of user every year and was >> so very happy that he did not had to do it all by pointing and clicking but >> had some scripts to do it. >> >> So the answer to all this is that there are very good and valid reasons >> to prefer text to all the shiny interfaces of he world. >> And you don't even have to look very far to find some. >> >> As for programming with in a graphical way, the ability has been around >> for decades. >> I believe we can safely assume that if people are still using textual >> interface after such a very long period (in computer science time frame), >> it is most certainly because natural selection has favoured the choice that >> had most advantages ... >> >> nicolas >> >> PS: which does not mean that GUI are completely useless >> >> >> On 21/04/2015 20:03, kilon alios wrote: >> >> Funnily enough I am in the exact opposite opinion, of Graphical >> approach being vastly superior to text based approach including programming >> languages. 25 years using computers and coding with them and still cannot >> fathom why programming languages are still a think and why developers and >> "power" users rely so much on text based approach. But whether I like it or >> not the coding world is dominated by text based solutions. >> >> Its a pointless debate though when it comes to pharo will depend on the >> people doing the work. Personally I don't have the time of going very deep >> into this and doing all the hard work it requires. My focus is elsewhere. >> But I welcome any contribution. >> >> As a lawyer myself and a coder, I cannot even begin to compare Latex to >> the convenience of Libreoffice I use at work. Its not even a debate . >> Latex is something I never heard of until Pillar introduced me to it. >> Can't imagine who in the right mind would use this to document things, but >> I guess they have their reasons. >> >> I started with command line and CP/M back in 1988 but even back then >> when GUIs were not mainstream (at least in my country) I was dreaming of >> graphical intefaces that would lift me from the restrictions of text based >> approach and the dreaded command line. I wish I had found out about >> Smalltalk back then and its elegant solution to this problem. >> >> I love Pillar because its simple and I like the syntax, but yeah in the >> end I would choose a Graphical Documentation Tool no questions asked. >> >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:39 PM, Dmitri Zagidulin <[hidden email] >> <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4820989&i=1>> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 12:15 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[hidden email] >>> <http:///user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4820989&i=2>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I dream that all documents in my Dynabook are WYSIWYG. However, the >>>> computing world seems to have regressed into writing documents in >>>> various >>>> forms of assembly code. >>> >>> >>> Completely disagree, that it's a regression in any way :) Text-based >>> document writing has enabled so many more features than WYSIWYG approaches >>> have ever dreamed of. I would be happy to debate the merits of the two >>> approaches, feature-for-feature. >>> >>> You're basically pining for the equivalent of VisualBasic drag & drop >>> programming, versus the flexibility of writing code in an editor. The >>> latter wins, no contest. (Now, that is not to say that text-based code >>> editing can't be /improved/ with better IDE tools, that's what we're all >>> about after all.) >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > ------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion > below: > > http://forum.world.st/Improving-the-documentation-model-tp4820814p4820989.html > To start a new topic under Pharo Smalltalk Developers, email > ml-node+s1294792n1294837...@n4.nabble.com > To unsubscribe from Pharo Smalltalk Developers, click here > <http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=1294837&code=MDgwMG5hY2hvQGdtYWlsLmNvbXwxMjk0ODM3fC0xOTAxMTExODEy> > . > NAML > <http://forum.world.st/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > ----- Nacho Smalltalker apprentice. 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