On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:10 PM, John Maher <jo...@rotair.com> wrote:
> Sorry I'm not reading anything on unix if I can help it. Text based > operating systems will be obsolete. I know all you text gurus will > argue to your death. But JCL was junk while it was still in use. It > was used only because that had to, not because it was any good. Command > line interfaces, text based oses and the mouse are all going bye-bye. > Its just a matter of time. May be in my lifetime, may not be, I don't > care. I am focusing my attention on the future, not the past otherwise > I could get a high paying job doing cobol since those guys are in > demand. But I don't want to work with a dead language even if it won't > die in my lifetime. I'm looking ahead. You might want to "look ahead" to Windows Server 2012. The core installation has no GUI, and the entire OS - your whole Windows domain - can be administered via the very thing you're railing against - a command-line interface. Or "look ahead" to Exchange 2007, which shipped with almost no GUI to speak of as well - any GUI it had was a wrapper on top of PowerShell scripts (again, you did your administration via the command line). Windows administrators & developers who choose not to get on the PowerShell train will be left behind. The GUI is not the end-all, be-all of computer interfaces, despite what you may believe.
