Adrian: Best way to learn is hands on with Linux. It's really very intuitive, but it follows different logic to MacOS. Anthony: Intuitive isn't quite the right word. Alain: Intuitive!! I doubt that. The whole Mac philosophy is diametrically opposed to any command-line interface because such interfaces are necessarily less intuitive than a point-and-click metaphor of the real-world. Lots of overly-concise commands and arbitrary conventions that have to be learned and remembered. Of course, CLIs are faster because the human operator has to adapt to the demanding-syntax and constructs of machine-driven design, rather than harness some of the computing power to make the computer adapt to our sloppy, error-prone, ambiguous, human ways of accomplishing tasks. So current trends towards Perl, Python, Linux ... while they are promising from a programmer's perspective ... are reactionary and regressive when you look at the big picture. Besides, programmers are human too, so why aren't their tools more user-friendly? For What It Is Worth Alain Farmer __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
