Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
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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The mnemonic nature of Unix commands was surprisingly easier to remember than if they had been spelt out in their entirety. Apparently the vowel-less words and phrases gave the command names a "quirkiness" that was easier to remember
even for non-english users ?
it's bloody stupid !