On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Carl Jokl <[email protected]> wrote:
> I ask because I have a co-worker who has been rather condescending > about the use of any GUI tools. He seems determined never to use them > and thinks he can do everything more efficiently from the command > line. > Your coworker sounds a bit... dumb. The more tools you have in your toolbox, the more efficient you are. Period. This has nothing to do with which one is better than which other one, it's about optimizing the simple action "Using the best tool for the job". You'll be much more productive if you can pick from ten tools than if you can only pick from two. Myself, over the course of a day, I use vi, emacs, Eclipse and the shell. Each is very good at a few specific things so I feel like I'm close to making an optimal use of my time. More specifically, it's obvious that command line tools have advantages over graphical ones (automation, etc...) but it should be obvious that graphical tools have vast advantages over command line ones as well. A good example to me is git. The information that git provides in the shell is quite overwhelming and trying to interpret it in a shell window is very inferior to having a big graphic window showing you colored trees and smart diffs. Obviously, the mouse has advantages for certain types of navigation as well over emacs or vi, no matter how good these two tools are at navigating. I'll stop there, I just find it preposterous to hear someone say something like your coworker did (the closed-minded attitude notwithstanding, which must be a joy to work with). Hopefully, that's the place you are no longer working at. -- Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
