Linked by Greg Afinogenov on Wed 3rd Sep 2003 07:19 UTC
It is not fashionable nowadays to speak of the merits of the command line, in an age where things like streaming video and Aqua are an integral part of our daily life. However, I do not think that typed-in commands must necessarily be consigned to the dustbin of computer history. Of course, I am not suggesting that we all drop X and Windows and pretend like we are living in the early eighties. The command line interface still has much to offer us, and many of its benefits simply cannot physically be emulated or even replaced by graphical ones.
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>>People who complain about KDE have never suffered through MSDOS print files <<
I have never understood what was supposed to be so difficult about ms-dos. There are only about ten commands most users would need, and they are all *so* complicated.
For example, if you want to print a file:
PRINT filename
Oh my god! You would have to be rocket scientist to understand that. To delete a file, you need the extrodinarily difficult command:
DEL filename
I guess it would take about a week for most people to understand that?