14 May
2001
14 May
'01
12:13
sigh... the thing is, *I* have a degree in Computer Science, plus 10 years experience in working in programming with sh, C and Java and Unix computer system administration - all on various platforms of Unix. I have YET to see any command line commands that can not be duplicated with a well written text menu or GUI.
I have yet to see a decent text or GUI mechanism for creating shell pipelines - UNIX or Windows. Regular expressions are another one. Writing GUIs for simple commands isn't that difficult. Converting the power of the UNIX shell into a GUI is not yet possible, and maybe never will be. I would suggest that anyone who thinks it's just a case of arranging enough buttons doesn't really know the power of the shell interface.