On 2013-06-14, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:33:40 -0700, Rick Johnson wrote: > >> On Thursday, June 13, 2013 3:18:57 PM UTC-5, Joshua Landau wrote: >> >>> [...] >>> GUI is boring. I don't give a damn about that. If I had it my way, I'd >>> never write any interfaces again (although designing them is fine). >>> Console interaction is faster to do and it lets me do the stuff I >>> *want* to do quicker. >> >> And are you willing to provide *proof* that the console is faster? Or is >> this merely just your "opinion"? I would be ready and willing to compete >> in a "Pepsi challenge" to disprove your claim if needed. For instance, >> if i want to open a text file on my machine, i merely navigate to the >> file via my file browser interface, using clicks along the way, and then >> the final double click will open the text file using it's default >> program. Are you telling me you can type the address faster (much less >> remember the full path) than i can point and click? > > If you can remember the full path in order to point and click, > then I'm sure Joshua can remember the full path in order to > type.
My favorite current challenge for an IDE designer is concatenating text files. This is a one-liner, even with cmd.exe, but I don't even know how to do it in Explorer. I'd have to use X number of text editing sessions. > But in any case, there are certainly strengths and weaknesses > of both GUIs and text interfaces, and one should design > programs around whichever is best for the needs of the program > and the user. The side issue of keyboard shortcuts in GUI interface have built-in stengths and weaknesses. I was going to write something about them earlier, but I got bogged down when I thought of the issue of accessibilty, which overtakes any such discussion. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
