Falcolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jun 22, 3:06 pm, Pascal Bourguignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How do you call a Mac user interface that let a user work during 3 >> hours to do a simple modification to a MS-Word file that takes 15 >> seconds to do with emacs or a simple unix script? > > Would you mind elaborating on *what* took 3 hours to do, as opposed to > just throwing around unquantified numbers? Would you also mind > explaining the user's familiarity with the tools they were using on > the mac?
Anything that the user have to do repeatitively with the GUI, like copy-and-paste, or reformating of a lot of paragraphs or table entries, and which is done automatically by writting a one-liner program in emacs or shell. And they tried to put graphical user interfaces on scripting, it doesn't work either. Programming is working with text, with verbs. > It's just as easy for me to say that it took me 30 minutes to simply > exit emacs, and use that to justify that emacs, and by extension > Linux, is a terrible tool. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ NOTE: The most fundamental particles in this product are held together by a "gluing" force about which little is currently known and whose adhesive power can therefore not be permanently guaranteed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
