On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:19:55AM -0600, Bill Carlson wrote:
> Another good example of Unix at work: Small tools that can be chained
> together for accomplishing a variety of tasks.
The whole "toolbox" approach, allowing complex commands to be built out
of a kit of programs (that often, outside that context, appeared useless)
was one of the revolutionary aspects of Unix.
A visual version of the same concept started to come to fruition with
NeXt--a toolkit of graphical widgets that you strung together in a GUI
version of shell programming. (Pity Jobs was driving...)
Somewhere in there, Microsoft showed up and buggered the whole thing
with *its* steamroller approach using an integrated monolithic GUI and
killing CLI.
Now a whole new generation of folks are re-discovering shell programming.
We can only hope that a good visual toolkit will re-emerge.
--
Dave Ihnat
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