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 'renaming 2000 frames' comment earlier in the discussion made me think - what if big programs like Word or Photoshop could present a set of it's features to the shell, as though they were commands? So, imagine being able to call commands like
wd.auth "doc1.doc" "Steve""
Yes, you can do that kind of thing with ARexx on Amiga, although it is more common to run a short script from within the program's GUI interface.
Maybe you can do it with Applescript too. Any OS X users here?