Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
Graphics, User Interfaces This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them.
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RE: More Thoughts
by Mack Sim on Tue 9th Mar 2004 10:25 UTC

perhaps a LOGO - like feature, where the command "power user" could be spelled "pwr usr" and "power user" alike? And you could conceivably also set an alias, like "1337", if you wished?
Yes, I have RTFA and yes, i know most shells support aliasing
these features badly need to be made transparent, tho'