Magnus Lycka wrote: ... > I'd suggest that the OP look at the Wikipedia page in Unix > Philosophy. Read about Gancarz tenets, and replace shell scripts > with Python. (Of course, Python offers more elaborate communication > than pipes.) I'd also the link to Joel Spolsky's Biculturalism > article, and read that.
I fully agree with your posting. I (and I think many people) feel the same way about commandline and GUI interfaces. Commandline is the way my brain works... But what I really wanted to say: a very good reading about the different types of thinking and culture when comparing commandline and GUI and other important cultural phenomena using either the "commandline"- or the GUI-philosophy (e.g. DisneyWorld vs. "the real things") is "In the beginning was the commandline" from Neal Stephenson. Everybody, who is interested in the comparison of these different types of thinking and (how Stephenson says) cultures, find a very good essay about it in this small book. Regards Stephan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list