Re: Just an idea...

2010-07-06 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 14:39 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: Knowing a handful of extremely visual thinkers who dread the command line I have been thinking over the possibility of an application that uses a drag and drop interface to visually represent the concepts of piping and redirecting.

Re: Just an idea...

2010-07-06 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 6 July 2010 18:19, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 14:39 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: Knowing a handful of extremely visual thinkers who dread the command line I have been thinking over the possibility of an application that uses a drag and drop

Re: Just an idea...

2010-07-06 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:40:08 Christopher Sawtell wrote: Indeed it does, but would it not be a better idea to create a program which helped people improve their language and reeading skills, instead of creating a program which only made the unix command line environment available to the

Re: Just an idea...

2010-07-06 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 8:18 PM, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:40:08 Christopher Sawtell wrote: Indeed it does, but would it not be a better idea to create a program which helped people improve their language and reeading skills, instead of creating a

Re: Just an idea...

2010-07-06 Thread Roy Britten
On 6 July 2010 14:39, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote: Knowing a handful of extremely visual thinkers who dread the command line I have been thinking over the possibility of an application that uses a drag and drop interface to visually represent the concepts of piping and

Re: Just an idea...

2010-07-06 Thread chris
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 20:18 +1200, Ryan McCoskrie wrote: On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:40:08 Christopher Sawtell wrote: Indeed it does, but would it not be a better idea to create a program which helped people improve their language and reeading skills, instead of creating a program which only

Just an idea...

2010-07-05 Thread Ryan McCoskrie
Knowing a handful of extremely visual thinkers who dread the command line I have been thinking over the possibility of an application that uses a drag and drop interface to visually represent the concepts of piping and redirecting. At the moment I'm just in the day dream stage of development but

Re: Just an idea...

2010-07-05 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote: Knowing a handful of extremely visual thinkers who dread the command line I have been thinking over the possibility of an application that uses a drag and drop interface to visually represent the concepts of piping

Re: Just an idea...

2010-07-05 Thread Lee Begg
Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Ryan McCoskrie ryan.mccosk...@gmail.com wrote: Knowing a handful of extremely visual thinkers who dread the command line I have been thinking over the possibility of an application that uses a drag and drop interface to visually represent the

Re: Just an idea...

2010-07-05 Thread Adrian Mageanu
I think it's a good idea. Are you thinking of it as an educational tool, or something more like a shell script generator from a GUI? I had a brief look around freshmeat.net and didn't see anything like this. It may be that given the familiarity with the use of the command line by Linux user,