Hi Priscilla,
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 03:32:53PM -0800, Priscilla Oppenheimer wrote:
>At 03:09 PM 2/13/01, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
>
>>You are correct that both autodiscovery (for LANs) and autoconfigure
>>(for modems) both do things necessary to get the physical and data
>>link layers to work. The interface types and protocols are very
>>different, and were in all probability developed by different people
>>who didn't talk to one another. As far as I can tell, CLI developers
>>have no equivalent of Martha Stewart as arbiter of good taste and
>>grammar.
>
>I'm afraid you are right about there being no Martha Stewart for the CLI.
>The CLI is not consistent or intuitive, and it can be confusing. Sometimes
>there are hyphens and sometimes there aren't. Sometimes there are key words
>followed by a parameter, and sometimes you can just enter the parameter.
>Words (such as autoconfigure) get used inconsistently. Archaic words, such
>as arpa and iso, are still used as parameters.
>
>I used to work with a documentation writer at Cisco who made it her mission
>to report bugs in CLI consistency, but she was fighting a losing battle.
>Cleaning up the CLI was not considered a feasible or important job. She
>moved to Juniper. Seriously. I am a major fan of Cisco products, but their
>CLI can be confusing to learn.
>
>Priscilla
Sigh. Sometimes I wonder if the 800lb gorilla of networking cares
about the end user at all. I hope some day IOS will attain a level of
consistency and elegance I know is in cisco's realm of achievability.
What we now know of as IOS will some day be a primitive artefact for
historical interest only.
anthony
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