On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:19:07AM -0700, Lan Barnes wrote:
As do an increasing number of CLI programs. The studies and human factors
that cause people to need progress have nothing to do with CLI vs GUI,
it's
because the users are human.
I have to admire you. I personally would not have the temerity to argue
that my personal preferences are superior to the thought-through defaults
of the founders of Unix.
Actually, my intended point is that this has nothing to do with my personal
preferences. Are you sure that the founders of Unix thought through these
things?
Default behavior is exactly what we're talking about.
Yes, and more and more programs have verbosity as the default. It's a
matter of being objectively better for the users.
The scripting case is the easy one to add an option to quiet things down.
The interactive case is where the user shouldn't have to specify options
for what they almost always want.
I agree that the whole Unix philosophy is about small programs that
interact in simple ways. But, I'm not sure that stderr was ever limited
exclusively to errors, rather than diagnostics as well.
David
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