On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:13:05PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Conrad Parker wrote:
> >
> > "there are two types of command interfaces in the world
> > of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces."
> > -- Dan Bernstein, "The qmail security guarantee",
> > http://cr.yp.to/qmail/guarantee.html
>
>
> Ah yes. The way, the truth, and the light shining out of Dan Bernstein's
> proverbial. Another slimy Wizard in His Tower who would prefer us all to be
> timesharing instead of being empowered by what I would almost go so far as
> describe as *ethical* software design.
huh?
has someone gone and replaced Jeff with a flamebot or something?
Jeff, could you please rephrase your argument without referring to
djb as 'slimy'?
> > There will _always_ be a place for unambiguous input.
>
> Please tell me why a simple interface is necessarily ambiguous? Please
> explain why a simple interface is anything but unambiguous!
you are a human
simple is a sliding scale
it; bugs my parse tree
Conrad.
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