On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 01:15:32AM -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:38:32 -0700 > "H. S. Teoh" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I prefer to communicate in complete sentences rather than > > point-n-grunt. > > That's great :) > > I like both CLI and GUI, depending on what I'm doing, but that's > really good.
Well, I was being a bit over the top. :-P GUIs do have their place, such as when you're dealing with, say, 3D CADs or inherently graphical tasks. But IMNSHO, GUIs are overused for tasks that they aren't necessarily the best interface for. I cringe everytime I have to construct an expression (boolean or otherwise) using a hilariously convoluted GUI dialogue with all manner of drop boxes and other assorted widgets---or worse, a deeply-nested set of menus that you have to wade through for every single term in the expression---when I could've just typed out the expression on the keyboard in less than 1/10 of the time it takes to point-n-grunt it out. Makes me feel like trying to write D code in K&R C, or worse, PHP. :-P (There goes my feeble attempt at bringing this back on topic.) T -- The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners... -- Slashdotter
