Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info>: > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 11:38 pm, BartC wrote: >> It's the GUI users who are the Neanderthals, having to effectively >> point at things with sticks. Or have to physically move that rock >> themselves (ie. drag a file to a wastebasket). > > I haven't physically moved an icon to the wastebasket for years. I > point at the icon, right-click, and tell it "move yourself to the > trash".
Do you find that interface convenient? Do you often find yourself clickety-clicking around to perform bulk file operations? > Language is pretty important. But when you need to drive a nail into a > piece of wood, would you rather hit the nail with a hammer, or explain > to the hammer the precise direction and magnitude of force you would > like it to apply when it impacts the nails? I don't know. My everyday file manipulation needs are so diverse that I couldn't imagine how a GUI would make my life easier. What I'm thinking is, could Python turn into a serious competitor to bash? The standard shell suffers greatly from sloppy quoting, and many of the age-old list-processing idioms are more awkward than cute. A python shell would need a well-thought-out default import plus a way to string together external commands. Maybe JSON or similar could be the standard I/O framing format (instead of SPC-separated fields and LF-separated records). Someone must have tried that before. (Tclsh did that years back but suffered from analogous problems as bash.) Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
