Bernie wrote:
> >Let's suggest a computer "language" that is neither popular nor "correct",
> >but highly practical and relevant, nonetheless: DOS.
>
> I thought DOS was correct? Popular is another thing altogether (but that's
> esantially a PR problem).
If the question was not "suggest a computer OS that is both correct
and popular" but "suggest a computer user-interface that is both
correct and popular", then again, I cant really say an existing
name. But I did pondered on this topic for quite a while.
It seems, and most people agree, that the best interface seems
to be a CLI&GUI hybrid that will exploit the best of both worlds.
I think that Norton Commander 4/5 is a good example. It had GUI and
CLI at the same screen, both availble immediatly and completing each
other. You could do everything in both ways, you just had to pick
how do you want to perform the action. And it is quite fast
(not counting the earlier versions). And for the newbies you could
arange a simple ANSI menu for them. You can also assign file
extensions. Pressing Enter on an AVI, MOV, MP3 and JPG call up
QuikView in my place. WAV call up Plany, and so on.
Its even possible to turn off the menus and remain with command-line
with Norton still in background, with the ability to call up its
functions while still in CLI using keyboard short-cuts. And you
can always exit this thing.. :)
Its not THE best, but its the closest one that i've seen so far for
being "almost there". No wander it has so many clones around.
(BTW, am I the only one that hate Norton Commander 95?)
Or Botton
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