>>> On 11/27/2013 at 02:21 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > A > system can be easy to install, or it can he highly flexible and > tunable. It cannot usually be both.
If you're talking about doing both within one interface, then I would agree, but not 100%. Having different interfaces makes it rather straightforward. Hence the GUI for end users that don't want/need to be technical, and the command line interface (CLI) for those that do. Or even the "expert mode" GUI if the developers really want to spend the time and effort. I prefer command line tools, since they don't limit what I can do to the range of tasks the GUI is coded to perform. Many of my users/customers use the GUI because it does what they need. Others do a mixture of both, or CLI only. Having the choice makes the product far more usable to a wider range of people. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
