Very cute! Maybe we can work that in; I'll put it on the page about the book and I suggest you look at the book something during the March 21/22 weekend. I don't want to change the title at this point because our attitude toward point-and-click isn't really that it's "rude"; just that it's limited. (I think an antiquated meaning for the word "rude," as it's used in French, might fit.)
Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duane Bronson" <[email protected]> To: "Andy Oram" <[email protected]> Cc: "Boston Perl Mongers" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 8:36:42 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Weekend book project: write a book for Free Software Foundation I'm not much of a writer or an editor, but I would like to propose a different the title: "It's Rude to Point : An Introduction to the Unix Command Line" When we first learn to communicate with other humans, we start out pointing and making gurgling noises. As we grow, we realize that speaking a common language is a faster more efficient way of getting what we want. The same is true when we learn to communicate with our computer except that adults tend to like making gurgling noises. On 3/11/09 1:37 PM, Andy Oram wrote: > > An introduction to the command line > > > -- Sincerely *Duane Bronson* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> http://www.nerdlogic.com/ 453 Washington St. #4A, Boston, MA 02111 617.515.2909 _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andy Oram O'Reilly Media email: [email protected] Editor 10 Fawcett Street, Fourth Floor voice: 617-499-7479 Cambridge, MA 02138-1175 fax: 617-661-1116 USA http://www.praxagora.com/andyo/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
