kelsey hudson wrote:
Lan Barnes wrote:
<grumble> but whatever happened to the *nix tradition of "return silently
on success"?
Blame windows.
No, blame UNIX. UNIX is the wrong one is this instance.
In human-computer interaction, anything which takes longer than .1
seconds causes the human brain to notice. At that point, status becomes
a necessity.
Second, if you know any semi-old school sysadmins, you will realize that
UNIX on workstations was never silent.
Hands up. How many sysadmins are still uncomfortable that they can't
hear their hard drives rattle anymore?
That hard drive rattle was the progress meter.
-a
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